Mao’s China · TURNING POINT ·
Dalai Lama’s flight to India (1959)
On the Mao’s China map as “Into exile”
31 Mar 1959 — After a fortnight’s ride over the Himalaya, the 23-year-old Dalai Lama crosses into India at Khenzimane and is granted asylum by Nehru. About 80,000 Tibetans follow him in 1959–60; the government-in-exile he set up at Dharamsala still contests Beijing’s account of Tibet.
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- Tibet and Xinjiang under Mao (chapter 3 of Mao’s China)
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- The People’s Republic under Mao, 1949–1976
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