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Anglo-Tibetan Relations
Assam Himalaya
Author_Alastair Lamb
British Camp
British Himalayan frontier policy
British Indian Empire
British Trade Agent
Caste
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Chefoo Convention
Chinese Government
Civilization
colonial border negotiations
Dalai Lama
Development
East India Company
Eastern Tibet
Education
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Finance
Forests
Free Trade
Gold
Governance
Gurkha War
Himalayan geopolitics
Hinduism
imperial frontier studies
Independence
Indo-Tibetan Trade
Lhasa Convention
London
Macaulay Mission
Military
Muslin
nineteenth century treaties
Northern frontier
Panchen Lamas
Protestantism
Race
Russo Chinese Bank
Settlement
Shawl Wool
Sikhism
Sikkim Tibet Border
Silver
South Asian diplomacy
Tashi Lama
Telegraphy
Territory
Tibet Trade
Tibetan Frontier
Tibetan Officials
Tibetan policy
Tibetan Question
Trade
Trade Mart
trans-Himalayan relations
Tsungli Yamen
Turkey
Western Tibet
Younghusband Mission
Product details
- ISBN 9781138334373
- Weight: 840g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 17 Oct 2018
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book, first published in 1960 and revised in 1986, is an important analysis of the under-studied Northern frontier of the British Indian Empire. It considers British relations across the Himalayas, looking at encounters with Bhutan, Sikkim, Nepal and Tibet.
Alastair Lamb graduated from the University of Cambridge. He worked in the early 1960s in the Public Record Office and India Office Library in London. Later, he taught at the University of Malaya and also worked as a Senior Fellow in the Department of History at the Australian National University for three years. Later he was a Professor of History at the University of Ghana (1968–1972). He was a Reader of History at Hatfield Polytechnic during the 1980s.
