Life & Times of Francis Younghusband : Harish Kapadia | IMF Webinar Vol. 26 | Biography
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- Опубликовано: 19 ноя 2024
- Lt. Col. Sir Francis Younghusband (1863-1942) : soldier-spy, bureaucrat, explorer, spiritualist, dubbed as the last great Imperial Adventurer, and the inspiration behind Rudyard Kipling's adventure saga "Kim".
An alumni of Sandhurst, he was commissioned in the 1st Kings Dragoon Guards. While on leave from his regiment, he proceeded on the thousand-mile crossing of the Gobi Desert, pioneering a route from Kashgar and being the first European to survey the thin air of Mustagh Pass below K2 along the China-Pakistan border earned him the Royal Geographical Society's coveted Gold Medal. In 1889, he, along with an escort of Gurkha soldiers, surveyed an uncharted region of the Hunza valley and the Khunjerab Pass through the Karakoram mountain range, meeting and befriending his Russian counterpart Captain Gromchevsky.
In 1890, he transferred to the Indian Political Service, serving as the British commissioner to Tibet from 1902-1904. He led a military mission to Tibet as a result of disputes over the Sikkim-Tibet border which controversially became a de facto invasion as British forces occupied Lhasa and forced the conclusion of the Anglo -Tibetan Treaty, bringing him a knighthood. In 1906 Younghusband moved to Kashmir as the British representative, before returning to Britain where he became an active member of many clubs and societies. He was elected President of the Royal Geographic Society in 1919, encouraging climbers, including George Mallory, to attempt Mount Everest.
Younghusband's religious upbringing had a profound influence on his later life as he went on to found the World Congress of Faiths (1936) and wrote several books on faith and spirituality, including on his encounters with the Dalai Lama and Mahatma Gandhi.
Harish Kapadia, born and residing in Mumbai, Mountaineer, Explorer and Writer received worldwide recognition for his long-standing commitment to geographical explorations in the Himalaya and Eastern Karakoram. By promoting awareness of the unknown valleys, its history and people and by drawing attention of the trekking and mountaineering world to the beauty of their peaks, he has made a unique contribution to the development of trekking and mountaineering in the Himalaya and the Karakoram. He has led more than 35 expeditions and published 17 books in addition to a large number of articles and papers on his experiences. He was Honorary Editor of the prestigious Himalayan Journal for three decades and is now the Editor Emeritus of the Himalayan Club.
He is Honorary Member of several International mountaineering clubs. He has received numerous awards which include Tenzing Norgay Adventure Award from the President of India, Patrons Royal Medal from the Royal Geographical Society, London and the Piolet’s D’or Asia for LifeTime achievements. All his work is dedicated to his younger son, an Indian Army Officer, Lt Nawang Kapadia who sacrificed his life for defence of the country.
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I wait for these webinar’s. another brilliant story narrated! I wish the books mentioned were listed out.
I am trying to find an audio clip of Younghusband talking.
Francis Younghusband butchered thousands of Tibetans in 1903-4 and looted treasures from Tibet which are now displayed in British Museums and also in the homes of private collectors. British forced an uneven treaty on Tibet and than in 1950 refused to help/speak on behalf of Tibet and even ill-advised Indi and the USA not to help or interfere in Chinese ocvupation of Tibet.
British owes an apology to Tibetans as they enjoyed much benefit from Tibet without giving anything in return.
yes that is british culture they got lot's of thing from india without giving a single piece of thanks ,same did with tibet he killed lot's of innocent tibitian's actually he wanted to expand british raj to get valuable thing from tibet and ruled over them.
Hmm。mind sharing a source of information?
@@dannynyima1781It in wiki you can find. Plus beside his action said it al invading Tibet without authorization from the parliament plus the excuse of war was because he claim the Tibetan was herding the yak into Nepal so the Tibet was invading. Man crazy man.
The British have yet to serve their punishment
@@premchopra6521 The British will serve NO punishment. India: useful info. The British East India Company went to India 18th cent with one ship and 16 marines. Yet they established a trading network across India by successfully trading with both Islamic and Hindu regions. Meanwhile the Indian Hindus and Indian Islamists mercilessly warred against each other endlessly. The British and the west took to India railroads, trains, cars, air-planes, steam/turbine ocean going cargo-passenger ships, electricity., telephones, computers, hydro-electric schemes, medicine to cure leprosy, TB, malaria, anti-biotics, anaesthetics for hospitals, correct practice of hygiene etc., . They made the Hindu Caste system illegal, they banned Suttee...the burning to death of child wives. They divided India into Hindu and Islam zones to stop them killing each other. They united India under one language...English, where as before it was divided by over 20 different native languages. Yet modern India denies all this and demands The UK pay India 1 trillion billion $£ compensation for colonisation. Hindus tell me Karma demands we pay! Ah! But No! We've paid all Indian Karma off by giving them the benefits of modern living (listed above.) The UK owes India nothing.
Found this webinar very usefull.