TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rani Singh
TI  - OFFICER AND HIS HOLINESS :  How the Dalai Lama Crossed into India
SN  - 9780670089192
U1  - 915.4515 
PY  - 2020////01/01
CY  - USA
PB  - Ebury Press
KW  - Singh, Har Mander - Diaries
KW  - Arunāchal Pradesh (India) - Officials and employees -- Diaries
KW  - Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, - Dalai Lama XIV, -- 1935-
KW  - Refugees, Tibetan -- India
KW  - Tibet Autonomous Region (China) - History - Uprising of 1959
KW  - Employees
KW  - Refugees, Tibetan
KW  - China - Tibet Autonomous Region
KW  - India
KW  - India -- Arunāchal Pradesh
N1  - In 1959, the Dalai Lama escaped from Tibet into India, where he was granted refuge. Few know about the carefully calibrated operation to escort him safely from the Indian border. An Officer and His Holiness narrates how political officer Har Mander Singh successfully managed this assignment in the North East Frontier Agency (NEFA) with limited resources, and despite a treacherous terrain and external threats. Har Mander Singh kept careful diary entries of the period, which have been reproduced for the first time in this book. His niece and renowned journalist, Rani Singh, painstakingly documents the journey through extensive research, travel and interviews with the Dalai Lama, his youngest brother, Tenzin Choegyal, and Har Mander Singh. Her own experience of retracing her uncle's journey also provides a comprehensive overview of the situation today. Rare pictures and valuable input from experts bring alive this thrilling operation that forever changed relations between India, China and Tibet
ER  -