Articles in Book Excerpt: Tibet - The Lost Frontier
The Panchsheel Agreement
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Book Excerpt: Tibet - The Lost Frontier | Date: 05 Aug , 2015
The “Agreement on Trade and Intercourse between the Tibet region of China and India” was signed on 29th April 1954 in Beijing by the Indian Ambassador N. Raghavan and Chang Han-fu, the Chinese...
The Years of Hindi-Chini Bhai-Bhai
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Book Excerpt: Tibet - The Lost Frontier | Date: 03 Jul , 2015
Zhou’s First Visit to Delhi During the years following the signing of the Panchsheel Agreement, Delhi continued its efforts to champion the newly independent nations of Asia and Africa. The...
Tibet: The International Betrayal
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Book Excerpt: Tibet - The Lost Frontier | Date: 11 Feb , 2012
“In former times Tibetans were a war-like nation whose influence spread far and wide. With the advent of Budhisim our military prowess declined…” Dalai Lama 23 October 1950: A Telegram from...
It is time to wake up to Chinese incursions
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Book Excerpt: Tibet - The Lost Frontier | Date: 07 Feb , 2012
Kiren Rijiju, the 36-year-old firebrand Member of Parliament representing Arunachal Pradesh (West), does not share the government’s and Indian Army’s perceptions about Chinese incursions in...
Tibet and British India - I
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Book Excerpt: Tibet - The Lost Frontier | Date: 11 Nov , 2011
Started in 1600 as a company with shareholders to peacefully and profitably develop trade with the Asian continent, the East India Company was no longer a trading concern by the beginning of the...
Tibet and British India - II
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Book Excerpt: Tibet - The Lost Frontier | Date: 11 Jun , 2011
The Russian Threat : The element which was to play a major role in Britain’s foreign policy toward Tibet and thereby decide the fate of Tibet as a nation, is what has been called the ‘Russian...
Tibet: The Panikkar Factor
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Book Excerpt: Tibet - The Lost Frontier | Date: 04 Mar , 2011
One of the most important factors in the relation between Tibet and the Government of India was the appointment of K.M. Panikkar as the Ambassador to ‘two Chinas’. It is unusual that the...