British India and Tibet: 1766-1910

Alastair Lamb graduated from the University of Cambridge. He worked in the early 1960s in the Public Record Office and India Office Library in London. Later, he taught at the University of Malaya and also worked as a Senior Fellow in the Department of History at the Australian National University for three years. Later he was a Professor of History at the University of Ghana (1968–1972). He was a Reader of History at Hatfield Polytechnic during the 1980s.

1. First Contacts: 1766-1792 2. Nepal: 1792-1816 3. Western Tibet: 1816-1861 4. The Opening of Sikkim: 1817-1861 5. The Sikkim Route: 1861-1874 6. The Chefoo Convention and the Macauley Mission: 1876-1886 7. The Sikkim-Tibet Convention and the Trade Regulations: 1886-1893 8. Yatung: 1894-1898 9. Curzon’s Tibetan Policy: 1899-1902 10. The Younghusband Mission: 1903-1905 11. The Aftermath: 1905-1910