Subject: Re: Looking for info on Bhutanese enclaves in Tibet<br/>
Date: Aug 03, 2002 @ 20:45<br/>
Author: lnadybal (&quot;lnadybal&quot; &lt;lnadybal@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-378134433">The French article seemd to be speaking about exclaves that were not <br/>
entirely Bhutanese (maybe Nepalese) because the names in the articles <br/>
do not match, for the most part, the names of the seven exclaves that <br/>
were taken by Chinese, that appear in the diplomatic notes exchanged <br/>
between Bhutan and India at the time.  Bhutan agreed in a treaty to be <br/>
guided by India in it&#39;s foreign relations, which at times, the <br/>
Bhutanese conceded meant any dealings with foreign states had to be <br/>
routed through India.  For the most part of the period since the <br/>
treaty was signed, it has been meant Bhutan retained its sovereignt <br/>
rights to deal with other states as it pleased, and &quot;guidance&quot; meant, <br/>
&quot;we&#39;ll ask you for guidance and if you give any without asking, we&#39;ll <br/>
consider it&quot;.  The difference in interpretation meant that Bhutan was <br/>
either a dependency of India or a sovereign state.  We all know it is <br/>
a sovereign state, always has been, but that it has this treaty.  <br/>
<br/>
Be all that as it may, I have texts from some of the diplomatic <br/>
letters that passed from Bhutan asking for India&#39;s assistance to <br/>
intervene in Peking over these exclaves, and have some paragraphs from <br/>
old books about these, but will take time to dig them out only if <br/>
someone needs them for formal scholastic endeavors beyond than idle <br/>
curiosity.  I have correspondents in the Bhutan government I can ask <br/>
about these exclaves - but forget about maps. (I already tried). <br/>
<br/>
There were also two Bhutanese exclaves in Nepal (one still exists) and <br/>
there are two pieces of India in Kalimpong still under a vague measure <br/>
of Bhutanese sovereignty, if you are interested in those, and not <br/>
just exclaves in Tibet.  There was also a place called Ambari <br/>
Falakatta, an estate in India near Jalpaiguri/Bengal that for a time <br/>
was given to Bhutan and then annexed by British India after a small <br/>
war.  <br/>
<br/>
There is also a Bhutan trade mission in Calcutta enjoying  <br/>
extraterritorial status and formerly there was a Bhutanese trade <br/>
mission in Lhasa, up to the time when Bhutan closed the border with <br/>
Tibet when the exclaves were occupied, if these are of interest.<br/>
<br/>
Regards<br/>
<br/>
Len Nadybal<br/>
<br/>
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<br/>
<blockquote><span title="qreply"> --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., &quot;hermanngoe&quot; &lt;hermanngoe@y...&gt; wrote:<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt;   Does anyone have any information on the enclaves that Bhutan <br/>
&gt; controlled in Tibet before the PLA took those (enclaves) over?<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt;                  - Thanks </span></blockquote></div>