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Arunachal as South Tibet and Dalai Lama as ruler
 Mr.
Guruswami states that in 1913 the Tibetans declared independence of
China. That same year at the Simla Conference they accepted the
present McMahon Line as the Indo-Tibetan border. But the Chinese
delegate initialed this division but marked a protest that India
must deal with China, not Tibet on this demarcation. The author,
derogatorily referring to the Dalai Lama as the "gentleman in
Dharamsala", says in 1947, when Tibet was still independent of China
sent a note to the then newly independent India laying claims to
some districts in NEFA, now Arunachal.
However, after 1947, when Tibet was independent, as the British left
it as such and a buffer between India and China, the socalled great
Indian helmsman Pandit Nehru acceded Tibet to
China, without consulting parliament and outside his constitutional
authority.
Now two points arise: If the Dalai Lama, head of a Tibetan
government, independent of China in 1947 claimed NEFA and Nehru
acceded Tibet to China, then for all purposes China has a genuine
claim to all parts of Arunachal, as all countries recognize Tibet as
Chinese territory.
Secondly the Dalai Lama in the wake of Chinese occupation fled and
was given political asylum by India then we can presume that India
thought the Dalai Lama has some claim to Tibet either as a spiritual
or a political entity. Therefore, his claim of 1947 to Arunachal is
valid in the eyes of the Government of India. It therefore follows
that if India does not want to cede Arunachal to China, then the
Dalai Lama should be installed at Tawang as a sovereign and the
whole of Arunachal ceded to as the Dalai Lama's independent and
sovereign territory. of India, much like the defence of Bhutan
will become the responsibility of India. India will then have a
semblance of a buffer with China which Pandit Nehru in his foolish
wisdom ceded.
The population of Arunachal is also racially Mongol and more akin to
China than India. That
racial problem will also stand settled, besides the Tibetans who
value freedom from China and it hurts their pride to be refugees in
India, without political rights, that genuine grouse will also
disappear.
But what will be the case of the 46,000 sq. km that India ceded to
China in 1961. It hurts us Sikhs because this area was conquered
through a military expedition of the Lahore Darbar in 1843 and
Ladakh as a whole annexed from Tibet into the Sikh empire. It must
not be lost to the present Indian's that the Sikhs extended
India's frontiers to what is now the Durand Line, besides conquering
Kashmir in 1819 from
Afghanistan. It is unfortunate that the dhoti clad leaders in
1947brought India's borders from the Durand Line to the Radcliffe
Line, partitioned Kashmir in two and let the Chinese conquer 46,000
sq. km in Ladakh.
And after 1947, the charges of sedition under section 124A IPC have
only been brought against us Sikhs by Indian's ruling from Delhi.
Isn't it ironic
8 August, 2007
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