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Eventually, I ended up with the overriding impression that the book was not so much a history of a nation and a people, but rather the heavily documented though somewhat indiscriminate and arbitrary account of a small ruling class in Lhasa, particularly those members who spent their time largely plotting to overthrow each other, indulging in sexual escapades, or otherwise hopelessly mired in decadence and corruption. According to reports emanating from Shanghai and inspired by the Kuomintang, Mr. Jampa Tendar himself inspired respect bordering on awe. One has to start somewhere if one is going to write a book or an article or give a lecture on an historical topic, and the choice may in some measure predetermine the result. Alastair Lamb adds It was in this frame of mind that the Indian government hoped to settle the future relations between British India and China without reference to the Tibetans. Macmillan s concluding sentence really hits home I have never attended the funeral of a murdered man, but I take it that at such a ceremony some distinction is made between the victim and the assassins.