Tawang - Revision history

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‎Indian perspectives

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‎Dalai Lama XIV’s visits

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‎Dalai Lama XIV’s visits

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‎1889

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-[[File:  Tawang Chak-Zam bridge.jpg| Tawang: the historic Chak-Zam footbridge <br/> Built by Lama Chag-Zam Wangpo (1385-1464), a disciple of the 1st Dalai Lama, an architect and a builder of iron- chain bridges.|frame|500px]]
+[[File:  Tawang Chak-Zam bridge.jpg| Tawang: the historic Chak-Zam footbridge <br/> Built by Lama Chag-Zam Wangpo (1385-1464): a disciple of the 1st Dalai Lama, an architect and a builder of iron- chain bridges.|frame|500px]]
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+[[File:  Tawang Chak-Zam bridge.jpg| Tawang: the historic Chak-Zam footbridge <br/> Built by Lama Chag-Zam Wangpo (1385-1464), a disciple of the 1st Dalai Lama, an architect and a builder of iron- chain bridges.|frame|500px]]
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 =Indian perspectives=
 [[File:  Nehru Tawang.jpg| A telegram dated March 11 1951, which Nehru would have seen as the External Affairs Minister.--From J Ramesh br/> Photocopied from '' India-China Relations 1947-2000: A Documentary Study '', Vol-I, edited by Avtar Singh Bhasin (2018).   |frame|500px]]
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-[[File:  Tawang Chak-Zam bridge.jpg| Tawang: the famous Chak-Zam bridge |frame|500px]]
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-===Dalai Lama XIV’s visits===
+===The 14th Dalai Lama ===
 Tenzin Gyatso has visited Arunachal Pradesh in 1983, 1996, 1997 and twice in 2003—... For one, the Dalai Lama acknowledged Tawang to be part of India in 2008, overruling his own pre-2003 insistence that it was Tibetan—and thus territory over which China had claim. Then, last year, the United States announced it believed Tawang was indisputably Indian, a claim that was followed up by the superpower’s former ambassador to New Delhi, Richard Verma, visiting Arunachal Pradesh…
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 Lhasa’s filth, the absence of health infrastructure to deal with a smallpox epidemic, the despotism of the monastic regime: these did not elude Das either.
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 In the summer of 1889, the legendary linguist, scholar and spy Sarat Chandra Das arrived at the Potala, disguised as a wandering pilgrim, became the first foreigner to meet the 13th Dalai Lama. He recorded that the eight year old’s eyes were “large and penetrating, and the shape of his face remarkably Aryan, though somewhat marred by the obliquity of his eyes”. The country’s Chinese administrators, by contrast, “were all black and of villainous appearance, greatly contrasting with the respectable Tibetan gentry, which forced me to think they were all recruited from low-class people from Western China”. His finding was blunt: “the Tibetans abhor them from the depths of their hearts”
 ==Dalai Lama XIV’s visits==
 Tenzin Gyatso has visited Arunachal Pradesh in 1983, 1996, 1997 and twice in 2003—... For one, the Dalai Lama acknowledged Tawang to be part of India in 2008, overruling his own pre-2003 insistence that it was Tibetan—and thus territory over which China had claim. Then, last year, the United States announced it believed Tawang was indisputably Indian, a claim that was followed up by the superpower’s former ambassador to New Delhi, Richard Verma, visiting Arunachal Pradesh…

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 [[File:  Nehru Tawang.jpg| A telegram dated March 11 1951, which Nehru would have seen as the External Affairs Minister.--From J Ramesh br/> Photocopied from '' India-China Relations 1947-2000: A Documentary Study '', Vol-I, edited by Avtar Singh Bhasin (2018).   |frame|500px]]
 [[File:  Nehru Tawang2.jpg| A telegram dated March 14 1951, which Nehru would have drafted or approved as the Minister concerned. -From J Ramesh <br/> Photocopied from '' India-China Relations 1947-2000: A Documentary Study '', Vol-I, edited by Avtar Singh Bhasin (2018).  |frame|500px]]
 = Tibetan perspectives=
 ==Tsewang Dorji: In 1951, India took full control of Tawang ==
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