colonialism I. conterpoint to the Russian great game

Russia In Central Asia In 1889  by the  by THE Hon. George N. Curzon

An authoritative voice who later baecame Viceroy of India 1899-1905)

Published in 1889 these articles were descriptive of a journey which I had taken in the months of September and October 1888, along the newly-constructed Transcaspian Rail way, through certain of the Central Asian dominions of the Czar of Russia.

• TO 'keep England quiet in Europe by keeping her employed in Asia, that, briefly put, is the sum and substance of Russian policy.

• ' Upon the occurrence of either of two contingencies,' he said ; 'if you tamper with the Russian dominions north of the Oxus ; or if you interfere with the realisation of our national aims in Europe.' (pag. 321-24)

When London *waived the rules*   -  XIX century 1______On February 16, 1768, the Court of Directors of the East India Company in London wrote to Warren Hastings: “we desire you to obtain the best intelligence you can whether cloth and other European commodities may not find their way to Tibet, Lhasa and the Western parts of China.” This spurred the British exploration of the Himalayas. 2______1880The British advances into the foothills of the Himalayas did not go unnoticed in Lhasa and Beijing. The Tibetans, who described the British penetration as “oil seeping into a cloth”, resisted British attempts to establish trade routes into Tibet and watched with trepidation as the British forged a network of railways and roads on the southern edges of the Himalayas to speed up trade.It ended with the 1890 no workable treaty.  3_______In 1899 Curzon became the Viceroy of India. He took a more menacing view of the absence of British presence on the Tibetan plateau, seeing Russia as the chief adversary, whose ambition was the total domination of Asia and thus a potential threat to the British Empire. In 1903, under Curzon’s leadership, the British invaded Tibet and marched to Lhasa. The first clause of the treaty that the British then forced on the Tibetans was the acceptance of the 1890 treaty.

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