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'The Middle Eastern question or some political problems of Indian defence' [228r] (460/616)
The record is made up of 1 volume (306 folios ). It was created in 1903. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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THE BOGDO OF URGA
367
Mongolia, Chinese authority is being steadily displaced
by that of Russia, who is gradually getting as sure, if
not as open, a grip of all these outlying dependencies
of the Chinese Empire as she has already got of
Manchuria.
Nor is that all. There are indications of no slight
significance that she is already drawing Tibet within
her sphere of influence. Russian diplomacy has been
fully alive to the opportunities it possesses of opening
up relations with Lhasa through the Buddhist tribes,
who live on, or in immediate proximity to, Russian
territory, and are, therefore, more easily amenable to
Russian influence. It has unquestionably found a
most valuable ally in the Taranath-Lama, or Bogdo,
of Urga. Some interesting information with regard
to this potentate was given this summer in a lecture
delivered before the Royal Geographical Society by
Mr. C. W. Campbell, Chinese Secretary of the British
Legation at Peking and a distinguished scholar, who
had undertaken on his way home on leave an important
journey of exploration through some of the least known
regions of North-Eastern Mongolia. The Bogdo, he
tells us, is the pontiff of the Lamaistic Church in
North Mongolia, is popularly venerated as the third
in importance of the great avatars, or living gods,
coming after the Dalai Lama of Lhasa and the
Pantshen Lama of Tashilunpo, and occupies a political
position in the Mongol world analogous to that of
the popes of mediaeval Christendom. 1 he ecclesiasti
cal title is Cheptsun Dcimba Khutukhtu, which was
originally conferred by the Dalai Lama of 1 ibet in
a.d. 1653 on a son of the Tushetu Khan. I his prince,
the first Bogdo, was the St. Paul of Mongol Lamaism,
and is known in Mongol history as Undur Gegen.
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The volume, written by Valentine Chirol and printed in London by John Murray in 1903, is based on a series of letters written by Chirol during a journey through Persia and the Persian Guf, that appeared in The Times in 1902 and 1903.
The main topics are: the concept of 'Middle East'; the Baghdad Railway; the British role in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; the Russian influence over Persia; the border of Afghanistan; the North-East Frontier of India, and Tibet. An appendix at the back of the volume contains copies of international treaties, and documents in French on the Baghdad Railway.
The volume contains numerous illustrations and three maps:
- 'Sketch Map of the Borderlands of India';
- 'Sketch Map of Asia showing railway expansion';
- 'Sketch map of Persia and adjoining countries'.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (306 folios )
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The foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover, and terminates at the inside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- Title
- 'The Middle Eastern question or some political problems of Indian defence'
- Pages
- 2r:305v
- Author
- Chirol, Sir (Mary) Ignatius Valentine
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