Britain and Tibet 1765-1947 : a select annotated bibliography of British relations with Tibet and the Himalayan states including Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan / Julie G. Marshall ; with a foreword by Alastair Lamb
BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; PERIODICAL ABBREVIATIONS; 1. SOURCES CONSULTED; 2. GENERAL; 3. FIRST BRITISH CONTACTS WITH THE HIMALAYAN AREA AND THE POLICY OF WARREN HASTINGS; 4. NEPAL 1788-1903; 5. WESTERN TIBET AND THE WESTERN HIMALAYAN AREA 1800-1903; 6. SIKKIM 1814-1903; 7. BHUTAN 1800-1903; 8. TIBET AND WESTERN CHINA 1800-1903; 9. ASSAM HIMALAYAN REGION TO 1903; 10. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY; 11. YOUNGHUSBAND EXPEDITION 1903-1904; 12. BRITISH AND CHINESE RELATIONS WITH TIBET 1905-1914; 13. ASSAM HIMALAYAN REGION 1905-1914
Summary
A hundred years ago, in 1904, a British mission under Francis Younghusband, along witha formidable military escort commanded by Brigadier-General James Macdonald, enteredLhasa, the capital of Tibet. Thus nearly 150 years of British attempts from their Indianbase to establish formal diplomatic relations with the ruling Tibetan theocracy culminatedin the deployment of massive armed force. While the Younghusband venture failed toachieve nearly all its stated objectives, it undoubtedly marked the opening of a new era inCentral Asian history the full consequences and complexities of which have yet
