India and Tibet

Sir Francis Edward Younghusband

• Publisher: FilRougeViceversa
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9783985518524
• Topic: Theology & Religion

It is an interesting reflection for those to make who think that we must necessarily have been the aggressive party, that the far-distant primary cause of all our attempts at intercourse with the Tibetans was an act of aggression, not on our part, not on the part of an ambitious Pro-consul, or some headstrong frontier officer, but of the Bhutanese, neighbours, and then vassals, of the Tibetans, who nearly a century and a half ago committed the first actan act of aggressionwhich brought us into relationship with the Tibetans. In the year 1772 they descended into the plains of Bengal and overran Kuch Behar, carried off the Raja as a prisoner, seized his country, and offered such a menace to the British province of Bengal, now only separated from them by a small stream, that when the people of Kuch Behar asked the British Governor for help, he granted their request, and resolved to drive the mountaineers back into their fastnesses. Success attended his efforts, though, as usual, at much sacrifice. We learn that our troops were decimated with disease, and that the malaria proved fatal to Captain Jones, the commander, and many other officers. One can hardly breathe, says Bogle, who passed through the country two years laterfrogs, watery insects, and dank air. And those who have been over that same country since, and seen, if only from a railway train, those deadly swamps, who have felt that suffocating, poisonous atmosphere arising from them, and who have experienced that ghastly, depressing enervation which saps all manhood and all life out of one, can well imagine what those early pioneers must have suffered.

Table of contents

• Cover
• India and Tibet
• Table of contents
• PREFACE
• INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER I BOGLE’S MISSION, 1774
• CHAPTER II TURNER’S MISSION, 1782
• CHAPTER III MANNING’S VISIT TO LHASA
• CHAPTER IV THE BENGAL GOVERNMENT’S EFFORTS, 1873–1886
• CHAPTER V THE CONVENTION WITH CHINA
• CHAPTER VI SECURING THE TREATY RIGHTS
• CHAPTER VII NEGOTIATIONS WITH RUSSIA
• CHAPTER VIII A MISSION SANCTIONED
• CHAPTER IX SIMLA TO KHAMBA JONG
• CHAPTER X KHAMBA JONG
• CHAPTER XI DARJILING TO CHUMBI
• CHAPTER XII TUNA
• CHAPTER XIII GYANTSE
• CHAPTER XIV THE STORMING OF GYANTSE JONG
• CHAPTER XV THE ADVANCE TO LHASA
• CHAPTER XVI THE TERMS
• CHAPTER XVII THE NEGOTIATIONS
• CHAPTER XVIII THE TREATY CONCLUDED
• CHAPTER XIX IMPRESSIONS AT LHASA
• CHAPTER XX THE RETURN
• CHAPTER XXI THE RESULTS OF THE MISSION
• CHAPTER XXII NEGOTIATIONS WITH CHINA
• CHAPTER XXIII THE ATTITUDE OF THE TIBETANS SINCE 1904
• CHAPTER XXIV SOME CONCLUSIONS
• CHAPTER XXV A FINAL REFLECTION
• APPENDIX
• COLOPHON