NEW DELHI, Feb 10 (AFP) - Hundreds of Tibetans ended a 1,350-kilometre (844-mile) peace march here Monday with a call to the Indian government to help hold talks with China on autonomy for Tibet, officials said.

About 250 Tibetans wearing saffron and maroon coloured robes marched into New Delhi in the evening, completing a marathon march from western state of Maharashtra.

The marchers, including Buddhist monks, carried Indian and Tibetan flags, banners and placards as they shouted slogans calling for a free Tibet.

The marchers, who set off from Wardha on December 10, also carried photographs of their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.

The leader of the peace march, Choekyong Wangchuk said the Indian government should urge China to hold immediate talks without preconditions with the Dalai Lama.

"The Indian government should impress upon the Chinese leadership of the wisdom of the transformation of Tibet as a peace zone," Wangchuk said.

The Dalai Lama and Beijing have recently clashed over the choice of the Panchen Lama, Tibet's second ranking religious leader, as his successor.

In addition the Dalai Lama this month infuriated China by announcing he would visit rival Taiwan for the first time in late March and hold three religious rallies.

"India should also call for immediate cessation of the Chinese ongoing gross human rights violation of Tibetan people and the brutal repression inside Tibet," Wangchuk said.

"The government of India should also help us to recognise the Tibetan government-in-exile under the leadership of Dalai Lama," he added.

India is home to around 100,000 Tibetans, many of whom fled to India along with the Dalai Lama following a failed anti-Chinese uprising in 1959.

The Dalai Lama, has said he was ready for peace talks with China if it could result in "genuine self-rule and autonomy" for Tibet.