Of Dispersal(s) — ཡུལ་གྱར་གྱི་སྐོར།

While a few individual Tibetans returned to Tibet in the 1970s and 1980s, it was in the 1990s that a noticeable group of returnees came to be formed. Many families in Tibet who had initially left their children in the Tibetan exilic schools in India subsequently withdrew them from the system. The families were reacting to the mounting pressure from work units and local leadership in the Tibetan regions threatening job security if the children continued to remain in India under the influence of the ‘Dalai clique’ (ICT, 2003). Consequently, the children, by then youths in high school and a few who had graduated that were in Indian colleges, returned to Tibet. Even through the early-mid
2000s, it was not unusual to hear about another arrival in town or chance upon a new face on the streets of Lhasa, that we had once known in exile.