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To: joseffy who wrote (62857)	12/28/2011 10:57:03 AM
From: elmatador	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) of 103300

The British expedition to Tibet during 1903 and 1904 was an invasion of Tibet by British Indian forces whose mission was to establish diplomatic relations and trade between the British Raj and Tibet. In the nineteenth century, the British conquered Burma, Bhutan, Sikkim and Nepal, occupying the whole southern flank of Tibet, which remained the only Himalayan kingdom free of British influence. The causes of the war are obscure, and it seems to have been provoked primarily by rumours circulating amongst the Calcutta-based British administration (Delhi not being the capital until 1911) that the Chinese government, (who nominally ruled Tibet), were planning to give it to the Russians,[ citation needed] thus providing Russia with a direct route to British India and breaking the chain of semi-independent, mountainous buffer-states which separated India from the Russian Empire to the north. These rumours were confirmed seemingly by the facts of Russian exploration of Tibet. Russian explorer Gombojab Tsybikov was the first photographer of Lhasa, residing in it during 1900—1901 with the aid of the thirteenth Dalai Lama's Russian courtier Agvan Dorjiyev. en.wikipedia.org

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