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Author: John Wilcox
Publisher: Allison & Busby
ISBN: 0749014164
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309
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1903. The British Empire has reached its probable apogee: so much of the world map is coloured red and the sun never set on its boundaries. But Lord Curzon, the ambitious Viceroy of India, has different views. Tibet, the mountainous region on the Raj's borders, irritates him: the Dalai Lama never replies to his letters and border disputes multiply. He decides to invade and recruits Simon Fonthill, veteran of so many of Queen Victoria's 'Little Wars', to lead 2000 men over the ice-bound Himalayan passes to Lhasa. Fonthill sets out on another expedition with his wife Alice, reporting for the Morning Post, and his old comrade, '352' Jenkins. It is machine guns against muskets as the cruel and brave monks, fighting on their own terrain among the clouds, oppose the invasion. When Alice is captured, treachery is revealed, and Fonthill and Jenkins must gallop to her aid in their most arduous and thrilling adventure yet.
Author: John Wilcox
Publisher: Allison & Busby
ISBN: 0749014164
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309
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1903. The British Empire has reached its probable apogee: so much of the world map is coloured red and the sun never set on its boundaries. But Lord Curzon, the ambitious Viceroy of India, has different views. Tibet, the mountainous region on the Raj's borders, irritates him: the Dalai Lama never replies to his letters and border disputes multiply. He decides to invade and recruits Simon Fonthill, veteran of so many of Queen Victoria's 'Little Wars', to lead 2000 men over the ice-bound Himalayan passes to Lhasa. Fonthill sets out on another expedition with his wife Alice, reporting for the Morning Post, and his old comrade, '352' Jenkins. It is machine guns against muskets as the cruel and brave monks, fighting on their own terrain among the clouds, oppose the invasion. When Alice is captured, treachery is revealed, and Fonthill and Jenkins must gallop to her aid in their most arduous and thrilling adventure yet.
Author: Jyoti Prakash Mitter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sino-Indian Border Dispute, 1957-
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Author: Jasbir Nagra
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781718639775
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Theocratic nation Tibet lost its identity and also headed towards the destruction of its religion and culture after its illegal occupation by the PRC. How great countries like Great Britain, the United States, India, and other world powers of 1950 including the UNO acted with total indifference and lack of concern, makes a painful episode. The most intriguing was India's myopic Tibet policy. Sharing a border that stretched close to 3,500 km from east to west, Tibet was of vital strategic importance to its security interests. Amazingly, India's actions revealed the bankruptcy of incisive intellect by newly raised Indian Foreign stalwarts under the leadership of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Great Britain that had commercially exploited Tibet by imposing unfair trade conventions and had recognized it as a free nation, unabashedly decided to dump the history and act as if Tibet had never existed. President Roosevelt in 1942 wrote to the Dalai Lama seeking assistance to use the Tibetan territories to supply the Nationalist forces of China, Tibet willingly offered full assistance. However, later to please China the US Department of States disowned Tibet's freedom. To cover the up the exchange of letter between heads of two states, that is President and the Dalai Lama, the US foreign policy stalwarts came up with an ingenious but ruefully solution. It was asserted that the letter was addressed to the Dalai Lama, the spiritual head of Tibet and not to the secular head. Nothing could have more ridiculous and unimaginative. It is painful that same set of stalwarts unabashedly scuttled the possibility of averting Korean War by failing to correctly and objectively appreciate Tibet's strategic importance. The price paid was 62,446 dead/missing, 103, 84 wounded and 3746 taken prisoners. The UN role in taking suitable and timely action to protect Tibet against aggression by the PRC was revelation of its intrinsic weaknesses and partisan approach. The critical issue about Tibet is its future. Will it be ever possible for Tibet to regain its lost position and become a rightful member of the international polity? Immediate response in the majority of the cases would be "No." However, it should not be forgotten that history is witness to the fact that any number of empires emerged, and no empire howsoever vast or strong lasted forever. Interestingly, by and large, they fell not under pressure from external forces but mostly by internal dissensions. Nations that had lost their freedom resurrected to occupy their rightful place. Tibet, with its compassionate and humble but brave and daring people, led by not only spiritually enlightened but also an experienced and pragmatic statesman the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, has by his persistent effort over six decades has laid a sound groundwork to ensure its resurgence at the right time.
Author: Brig Jasbir Singh Nagra Prof
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781717566058
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 514
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On 01 October 1949 when the PRC came into being, Tibet was an independent nation and had plainly rebutted the offer of the Chinese Communists to be liberated. It also asserted plainly that it was a self-governing political entity and had no intention, whatsoever, to be "Liberated." It had no inhibitions about Chinese intentions and understood what the Chinese meant by "liberation." Tibet, an unarmed theocratic nation was caught up in a dire situation with no solution in sight. Under desperation, it sought help from nations, that it mistakenly thought to be well disposed towards it. They had treated it as an independent nation in the past, albeit for self-aggrandizement. Then onwards Tibet was on a betrayal trail. Unfortunately, all the nations that had at one time in the past taken advantage of Tibet, failed to come forward to help. Instead, they unethically and blatantly put up a pretense as if they had nothing to do with Tibet. Amazingly, the weirdest reaction was from India that not only had diplomatic relation with it but also had a strategic stake in its continued existence as an independent nation. The UK that had signed an international treaty with it in 1914 and economically exploited it for decades explained its indifference by deviously passing on its liabilities arising out of the terms of the treaty to India. The US that emerged as a superpower after the Second World War and proclaimed itself to be champion of freedom, liberty, nonaggression, human rights etcetera and masterminded the formation of UN to ensure world peace and mutual-coexistence of nations, turned Nelson's eye when the question of Tibet came up. How the US lost a strategic advantage of setting up a military base in Tibet, both to contain the spread of Communism and the possibility of averting the Korean war, makes an overwhelming account. What is Tibet's future? As long as Tibetan spirit and nationalism survives there is no reason to give up its resurrection.
Author: Brigadier Jasbir Singh Nagra
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1636335179
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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On 28 April 1954, history was made. Never before had any nation outreached another nation that did not even share a common border, with an offer to occupy its immediate neighbour, sacrificing strategic interests. Strangely, the country that was directly involved was not even consulted. To add to the weirdness, the Indian Government continued to defend China’s act of treason against Tibet in international forums and also misled its citizens. How the India-Tibet border was converted into the Sino-Indian border in 1954 is both intriguing and tragic. With Great Britain in the lead, several other nations that had exploited Tibet for decades for various one-sided benefits brazenly decided to desert it at the time of its crisis and feigned conniving ignorance about its political status. Tibet, as a theocracy, with no armed forces and reliable ally, was an alluring target for expansionist China. What lies ahead for Tibet is a geostrategically important issue not only for India but also the world at large—to contain China’s outrageous expansionist and hegemonistic designs. The failure of China to subdue Tibetan nationalism, religion, culture and heritage by suppressive means over seven decades is indicative that the resurrection of Tibet is not a myth but a possibility in the future.
Author: Christopher I. Beckwith
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691216304
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 303
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This narrative history of the Tibetan Empire in Central Asia from about A.D. 600 to 866 depicts the struggles of the great Tibetan, Turkic, Arab, and Chinese powers for dominance over the Silk Road lands that connected Europe and East Asia. It shows the importance of overland contacts between East and West in the Early Middle Ages and elucidates Tibet's role in the conflict over Central Asia.
Author: Shiri Ram Bakshi
Publisher: APH Publishing
ISBN: 9788170249993
Category : Cabinet officers
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Author: John Wilcox
Publisher: Allison & Busby
ISBN: 0749014067
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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North West India, 1897. Simon and Alice Fonthill are travelling with their old friend Jenkins to Marden, India for an anniversary party with the Guides Corps. But when they are ambushed on their journey, they realise that the land may not be as peaceful as they first believed. Their suspicions are confirmed when they are told of fresh trouble from the Pathans and Simon is tasked by Viceroy Elgin to deliver a very important letter to the Amir in Kabul. With Simon in Kabul, the Pathans attack the Pass and Alice is kidnapped by the Mullah leading the revolt, so Simon must battle against time and incredible odds to rescue his wife.
Author: William John Ottley
Publisher:
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Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Author: Paul Christiaan Klieger
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789144035
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
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The history of Tibet has long intrigued the world, and so has the dilemma of its future—will it ever return to independence or will it always remain part of China? How will the succession of the aging and revered Dalai Lama affect Tibet and the world? This book makes the case for a fully Tibetan independent state for much of its 2,500-year existence, but its story is a complex one. A great empire from the seventh to ninth centuries, in 1249, Tibet was incorporated as a territory of the Mongol Empire—which annexed China itself in 1279. Tibet reclaimed its independence from China in 1368, and although the Manchus later exerted their direct influence in Tibetan affairs, by 1840 Tibet began to resume its independent course until communist China invaded in 1950. And since that time, Tibetan nationalism has been maintained primarily by over 100,000 refugees living abroad. This book is a valuable, fascinating account of a region with a rich history, but an uncertain future.
