Author: Nikolai S Kuleshov
Publisher: Library of Tibetan Works & Archives
Year: 1996
Language: English
Pages: 144
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8186470050
Description
Russia’s Tibet File: The Unknown pages in the history of Tibet’s independence offers the reader a challenging new interpretation of Tibetan political history in the early years of the 20th century. Using evidence gleaned largely from Russian, Indian and British archival sources, author Dr Nikolai s Kuleshov puts forward a persuasive thesis and sheds new light on the relations between these political powers and Tibet.
Basing his study around the central figures of the time-His Holiness the 13th Dalai Lama, the Buryat lama Agvan Dorjiev, Lord Curzon as viceroy of India and sir Francis Younghusband-the author documents the events and changing circumstances of Tibet’s political fortunes, and offers the reader a fascinating and innovative look behind the scenes of governmental policy and ambition.
This book and realise its full worth as an independent historical study of the overlapping worlds of Tibet, Russia, British India and China.
Contents
PUBLISHER’S NOTE
AUTHOR’S PREFACE
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE:
Dorjiev’s first missions to Russia in 1898-9 and 1901
CHAPTER TWO
Curzon’s reaction
CHAPTER THREE
The Younghusband expedition to Tibet 1903-1904
CHAPTER FOUR
The Lhasa Convention
CHAPTER FIVE
The Dalai Lama’s escape to Mongolia
CHAPTER SIX
Curzon’s fantasies are put to an end
CHAPTER SEVEN
Forward to a cordial consent
CHAPTER EIGHT
The dragon by the gates of India
CHAPTER NINE
The heavenly Tsar and the worldly Tsar
CHAPTER TEN
On a visit to the viceroy
CHAPTER ELEVEN
If only it is done sub rosa
CONCLUSION
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY