ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes the efforts of the Tibetan government-in-exile in creating a base for its exile struggle to free the homeland. After portraying the reasons of the Tibetans for their departure, I give an account of the circumstances under which they have rehabilitated and resettled, mainly in India but also in other countries. In this context, I also look at India’s motivation to serve as a territorial base for the Tibetans and the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA). In the center of the next section are the CTA and its efforts to resettle thousands of Tibetans and to establish an exile educational system. Next, I examine the development of the exile Tibetan struggle to regain the Tibetan homeland under the leadership of the CTA, from the early 1960s to the 1990s. The representative claims and the organizational structure of the present CTA is the subject of the following section, with regard to showing how the Tibetans in exile concentrate their energies on regaining their homeland. Next, I look at the role of the main exile Tibetan NGOs and how they fit in the political structure of the CTA. At the end of this chapter is an analysis of the present annual CTA budget, which gives detailed information about its policies.
