TIBET AND ITS HISTORY, Hugh E. Richardson 1984 2nd ed DJ (Richardson, Hugh E.)

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TIBET AND ITS HISTORY, Hugh E. Richardson 1984 2nd ed DJ
By Richardson, Hugh E.
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Boulder, 1984, 2nd edition. 327 pp, photos, maps. A lucid and straightforward history of Tibet from its beginning as a separate country in the sixth century AD to the 1960s. The author was the last head of the British Raj mission in Tibet. Hardcover, Dust Jacket, Fine (as New, DJ does not have tears as in the image!).

Hugh Edward Richardson

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Hugh E. Richardson (1905�2000) was a British diplomat and Tibetologist. His academic work focused on the history of the Tibetan empire, and in particular on epigraphy (the study of inscriptions as writings). He joined the civil service in 1930, and represented Britain in Lhasa, capital of Tibet,from 1936 to 1940 and again from 1946 to 1950, in the final years having become the diplomatic representative of the recently independent India. After his retirement from public service he returned to St. Andrews and spent the remainder of his life as an independent scholar.

He was an accomplished linguist who spoke Bengali fluently, a skill he put to use when conversing with Rabindranath Tagore, and his fluent Tibetan was described by the Tibetan politician Tsepon W.D. Shakabpa as "impeccable Lhasa Tibetan with a slight Oxford accent."

He was an advocate of the right of Tibetans to a separate political existence, a case he made in two books, Tibet and Its History (1962) and A Cultural History of Tibet (1968), and at the United Nations when the issue of Chinese oppression of Tibet was raised by the Irish Republic. There, in the words of one commentator, "he acted valiantly as a man of honour in a cause which has been largely lost because of the notions of political expediency, where sides are taken without regard to principle and in order not to risk aligning oneself with a potential loser, however deserving he may be" - a position which reportedly earned him the displeasure of both the British and Indian delegations to the UN Assembly.

He later wrote: "The British government, the only government among Western countries to have had treaty relations with Tibet, sold the Tibetans down the river and since then have constantly cold-shouldered the Tibetans so that in 1959 they could not even support a resolution in the UN condemning the violation of human rights in Tibet by the Chinese."

Richardson also said that he was "profoundly ashamed", not only atthe British government's refusal to recognise that Tibet had a right to self-determination, but also at the government's treatment of the 14th Dalai Lama.

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