[Rarebooks] FS: Younghusband, INDIA AND TIBET

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Younghusband, Francis. INDIA AND TIBET. A HISTORY 
OF THE RELATIONS WHICH HAVE SUBSISTED BETWEEN THE 
TWO COUNTRIES FROM THE TIME OF WARREN HASTINGS TO 
1910; WITH A PARTICULAR ACCOUNT OF THE MISSION TO 
LHASA OF 1904. London: John Murray, 1910. xvi, 
455 pp., [8] adv. Illus. with 2 color folding 
maps, 26 b/w plates and photos including portrait 
frontispiece of the Dalai Lama with tissue guard. 
8vo. Publisher's green cloth decorated in gilt, 
top edge gilt. First edition.

Francis Edward Younghusband (1863-1942), 
explorer, geographer, and mystic, was appointed 
"leader of a mission to Tibet to establish 
British political and commercial interest, and to 
survey the region, a focus of Anglo-Russian 
rivalry. Younghusband entered Tibet in December 
1903. With a mainly Indian fighting force, 
eventually exceeding 10,000, he advanced in 
stages towards Lhasa. A massacre of 700 Tibetans 
at Chumi Shengo in April 1904 caused disquiet in 
Britain. After further bloodshed he rode into 
Lhasa in August. Crowds clapped his entry; 
Younghusband took as a welcome what was a Tibetan 
gesture to ward off an evil spirit. The 
government considered he had exceeded his 
instructions by negotiating a treaty, signed on 7 
September 1904 and regarded the treaty itself as 
damaging to Anglo-Russian relations. A 
renegotiated treaty, finally agreed in 1906, 
drastically reduced Britain's commitment to and 
power over the region. In Verrier's view (1991) 
Younghusband was politically naïve, pursuing a 
chivalrous quest rather than a strategic mission, 
and exceeded his brief even by advancing to 
Lhasa. French (1994) presents the Tibet mission 
as the embodiment of empire at its overstretched 
zenith. Younghusband was in effect reprimanded in 
1904 by the award of the low honour of knight 
commander of the Indian Empire," (Oxford Dict. 
Nat. Bio. 37084).

Spine ends and corners worn with small tear at 
top joint else a very good copy, new endpapers, 
foxing mainly on half-title; additional photo 
tipped-in by previous owner and noted on list of 
illustrations. Yakushi Y12a. Kuloy & Imaeda 
11592. [38173] $500.00

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