SIMLA CONVENTION, 1914, AND ITS AFTERMATH Strangely, the British government went to great lengths to keep the proceedings of the Simla Convention of 1914 under wraps. So much so that even the Assam government was kept in the dark as to what was decided as the final frontiers of India. The explanation perhaps lay in the earlier 1907 Anglo-Russian Convention. The agreement with Russians had stipulated that both the British and the Russians acknowledge Chinese suzerainty over Tibet and that neither side could sign an independent treaty with the Tibetans. Article II of the section titled
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