１７５７年,英国远征军在普拉西战役中击败莫卧儿王国最后一支大军,确立了在南亚次大陆的殖民统治。此后,英殖民者开始对喜马拉雅山北面神秘美丽的西藏高原怀有觊觎之心,英印总督曾两次派员进入西藏,但均只到日喀则而未能到达拉萨。１８１１年,一位英国人终于抵达拉萨,并将这座 In 1757, the British Expeditionary Army defeated the last army of the Mughal Kingdom during the Battle of Placay, establishing colonial rule in the subcontinent of South Asia. Since then, the British colonialists began to feel uneasy about the mysterious and beautiful Tibetan Plateau to the north of the Himalayas. The British Governor-General of India has dispatched two officers to Tibet. However, they all went to Shigatse and failed to reach Lhasa. In 1811, an English man finally arrived in Lhasa, and this