Explain the circumstances that led Tibetan refugees to seek asylum in India.
From 1950 onwards, the People's Republic of China overran Tibet in several waves, eventually annexing it. In 1959, following a popular uprising in Lhasa against Chinese presence, the 14th Dalai Lama fled across the Himalaya and took refuge in India. The Indian government granted him asylum, and he has been living in Dharamshala since then, where the Central Tibetan Administration functions as a government-in-exile.