The Younghusband Expedition
Author | : Parshotam Mehra |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Parshotam Mehra |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Patrick French |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 585 |
Release | : 2016-06-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1101973358 |
Soldier, explorer, mystic, guru, and spy, Francis Younghusband began his colonial career as a military adventurer and became a radical visionary who preached free love to his followers. Patrick French’s award-winning biography traces the unpredictable life of the maverick with the “damned rum name,” who single-handedly led the 190 British invasion of Tibet, discovered a new route from China to India, organized the first expeditions up Mount Everest and attempted to start a new world religion. Following in Younghusband’s footsteps, from Calcutta to the snows of the Himalayas, French pieces together the story of a man who embodies all the romance and folly of Britain’s lost imperial dream.
Author | : Sir Francis Younghusband |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 543 |
Release | : 2014-11-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0486780872 |
One of the last great imperial adventurers, Sir Francis Younghusband (1863–1942) was a British army officer whose explorations yielded major contributions to geographical research. In addition to charting a new route across the Gobi Desert, Younghusband was among the first Britons to enter the forbidden Tibetan city of Lhasa, where he headed a 1904 civil and military campaign. Younghusband's expedition forms a landmark in British exploration, the culmination of more than 140 years of attempts to establish good diplomatic terms with Tibet. This survey offers an in-depth examination of relations between India and Tibet from 1772 through 1910, the year Tibet was invaded by China. The account focuses particularly on Younghusband's firsthand observations on the 1904 mission and the treaty negotiations between Great Britain and Tibet.
Author | : Charles Allen |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2015-11-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1473627540 |
In December 1903 a British army marched over the Himalayas to counter a non-existent Russian threat and was confronted by a medieval Tibetan army ordered to stop it by non-violent means. It was a clash between the mightiest political power in the world and the weakest. Leading the mission was the charismatic Francis Younghusband. Commanding the army escort was an officer determined to do things by the book: General James Macdonald. The result was conflict at every level. Drawing on diaries, letters and unpublished first-hand accounts, Charles Allen reveals not only the true character of one of Britain's great imperial heroes but also the calamitous outcome for the Tibetan people of Britain's last attempt at empire-building.
Author | : Clare Harris |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2012-10-30 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0226317471 |
For millions of people around the world, Tibet is a domain of undisturbed tradition, the Dalai Lama a spiritual guide. By contrast, the Tibet Museum opened in Lhasa by the Chinese in 1999 was designed to reclassify Tibetan objects as cultural relics and the Dalai Lama as obsolete. Suggesting that both these views are suspect, Clare E. Harris argues in The Museum on the Roof of the World that for the past one hundred and fifty years, British and Chinese collectors and curators have tried to convert Tibet itself into a museum, an image some Tibetans have begun to contest. This book is a powerful account of the museums created by, for, or on behalf of Tibetans and the nationalist agendas that have played out in them. Harris begins with the British public’s first encounter with Tibetan culture in 1854. She then examines the role of imperial collectors and photographers in representations of the region and visits competing museums of Tibet in India and Lhasa. Drawing on fieldwork in Tibetan communities, she also documents the activities of contemporary Tibetan artists as they try to displace the utopian visions of their country prevalent in the West, as well as the negative assessments of their heritage common in China. Illustrated with many previously unpublished images, this book addresses the pressing question of who has the right to represent Tibet in museums and beyond.
Author | : Sir Francis Edward Younghusband |
Publisher | : FilRougeViceversa |
Total Pages | : 686 |
Release | : 2021-08-20 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 3985518521 |
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.
Author | : Sir Francis Edward Younghusband |
Publisher | : New York : Longmans, Green ; London : E. Arnold |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) |
ISBN | : |
"Separate descriptions of the three mount Everest expeditions have already been written by those who took part in them, and have been published in the three books, mount Everest: the reconnaissance, 1921; The asault on mount Everest, 1922; and The fight for Everest, 1924. The present volume purports to be a condensed description of the three expeditions. It is ... based on the above-named publications."--Pref.
Author | : Tsepon Wangchuk Deden Shakabpa |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 1261 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9004177329 |
A sustained argument for Tibetan independence, this volume also serves as an introduction to many aspects of Tibetan culture, society, and especially religion with a compendium of biographies of the most significant religious and political figures.
Author | : Bérénice Guyot-Réchard |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107176794 |
This book explores Sino-Indian tensions from the angle of state-building, showing how they stem from their competition for the Himalayan people's allegiance.