India became Independent on 15 August 1947. And, it was only good two yearslater,ie. on 01 October 1949, that the Chinese Communists with MaoTse Tung, at their helm,came to power in China. When the British left the Indian sub-continent in August 1947, Tibet was an independent country and there was a trading mission in Lhasa,the capital of Tibet.
It was a failure of our foreign policy and that of the then Hon. Prime Minister of india, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, that we failed to formulate & conclude a treaty of peace & friendship with Tibet and protect its territorial integrity, like what we did in the case of Sikkim & Bhutan. There is no denying the fact that Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was an able leader and one of the greatest statesman of his time. However, like all humans, he too had his failings. He failed to appreciate, the astuteness & intellectual brilliance of Sardar Vallabhai Patel, the then Home Minister of India, when he as early as on 04 November 1950 informed Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, in writing,that Communist China was a potential threat / enemy to India, and to watch out. Unfortunately, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru in his exuberance as a world statesman and in his over enthusiasm to cultivate the Chinese, disregarded the venerable Sardar%u2019s advice, for which India paid a heavy price in 1962, and continues to pay even today.
RE:Independent Tibet
by Righteous on Mar 23, 2008 04:34 PM
col srinivas Nehru was "great statesman"....are u a pro-congressi ?? He used to Indulge in Illicit sex & Women , most of the time leaving his Wife & Daughter Indira.....Thus Indira also got SPoiled...WHAT GREAT STATESMAN....HE GENERATED KASHMIR PROBLEMMM...HE BITTERLY HATED S C BOSE.....Colone Srinivas WHAT DO YOU KNOW ????
It was a shame, India with Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru as its Hon. Prime Minister was a mute spectator when Communist China invaded Tibet, in 1959. No doubt that India granted asylum to His Holiness The Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader & temporal head of Tibet, when he and his followers fled Tibet in the wake of Chinese aggression; but, we put a moratorium on his freedom of speech & expression, to appeal to the World for help against the brutal aggression by China. To add insult to injury, India not only acquiesced the brutal invasion of Tibet & the ruthless suppression of Tibetans by China, but, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the Hon. Prime Minister of India was also very kind to state that the invasion of Tibet was an internal matter of China! History will not forgive India for betraying His Holiness The Dalai Lama and the pious, religious & peaceful Buddhists Tibetans, in their hour of need and in their struggle to shake off the shackles of slavery. What a shame! what a shame! This historic wrong needs to be undone. We need to arouse the conscience of people around the world and tell them of the miserable & pitiable plight of the unfortunate Tibetans under the subjugation of the Chinese.
History will not forgive India for betraying His Holiness The Dalai Lama and the pious, religious & peaceful Buddhists Tibetans, in their hour of need and in their struggle to shake off the shackles of slavery. What a shame! what a shame! This historic wrong needs to be undone. We need to arouse the conscience of peace loving poeple around the world and tell them of the miserable & pitiable plight of the unfortunate Tibetans under the subjugation of the Chinese. We need to repudiate China%u2019s claim to Tibet and free the peace loving Tibetans, from the shackles of slavery. Insha Allah! (God willing) it will happen soon with the dawn of the twenty first century and one looks forward to His Holiness The Dalai Lama being back in Ptola Palace in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet.
RE:Stand up and support HH The Dalai Lama
by Naresh Nayak on Mar 23, 2008 04:11 PM
it is not easy as you said it to repudiate China. China is like a ruthless shark which will kill any form of presence in its surrounding. You cannot repudiate a shark which has gone insane after getting the taste of human blood, can you?
RE:Stand up and support HH The Dalai Lama
by Gautam Dasaka on Mar 23, 2008 04:26 PM
But there might be ways and means. For example, an Englishman (i may be wrong here), has already wrote a book titled 'The 12 faces of China'. The purport of the book was to examine the differences between 12 different ethnic groups in China, in terms of language, culture, etc., This helps in breaking China at some point, if not in the very near future. For India, had Chinese policy been any better, it would have been best to have a unified China. Alas...
RE:Stand up and support HH The Dalai Lama
by Raghupathi Rao on Mar 23, 2008 04:28 PM
what are u talking about? you think india can win the might of the chinese army or at the minimum convince china to free tibet....hahahahaaa...please note that chinese are easily more than twice the economic and military might of india....
RE:Stand up and support HH The Dalai Lama
by Somesh Kataria on Mar 23, 2008 04:45 PM
Hey all, i know we have lost the wars of 1962, but why are you people always think that china can never be defeated. you may be surprised that china PLA was not able to win a war against tiny Vietnam and they agreed that there is no military but political solution..Be positive and even china knows 1962 can never be repeated and i am sure we have to fight one more war with china,there is no other go.so better be prepared.even if we dont want to fight and somebody attack Us what are we going to do ?
