Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-228] and index.

The roof of the world -- The great game -- A free Tibet -- The dragon resurgent -- Critical choices, Uncertain future -- App.1. Tibetan conquests in Western China during AD 763 -- App.2. Treaty between China and Tibet during the first half of the eight century AD -- App.3. Defeat of the Gurkhans in AD 1792 -- App.4. Convention between Great Britain and China relating to Sikkm and Tibet, 1890 -- App.5. Regulations of 1893 regarding trade, communication and pasturage appended to the Sikkim-Tibet Convention of 1890 -- App.6. Convention between Great Britain and Tibet, 1904 -- App.7. Lhasa convention, 1904 -- App.8. Convention between Great Britain and China, 1906 -- App.9. Convention Between Great Britain and Russia, 1907 -- App.10. Annex to the agreement between Great Britain and Russia concerning Tibet -- App.11. Mongol-Tibetan Treaty, 1913 -- App.12. The Agreement of the central people's government and the local government of Tibet on measures for the peaceful liberation of Tibet -- App.13. Five point peace plan for Tibet -- App.14. Strasbourg proposals.