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The Sino-Indian border war of 1962 forms a major landmark in South Asian, Asian and Cold War history. Among others, it resulted in an unresolved conflict permanently hindering rapprochement between China and India, the establishment of the Sino-Pakistani axis, the deepening of the Sino-Soviet split and had a lasting impact on Indian domestic affairs.
This volume draws on new documentary evidence to re-evaluate perceptions, motivations and decision-making processes of both antagonists, but also of third powers immediately affected by the conflict. It also investigates the effect on India's internal politics, its Constitution, the Communist Party of India and the fate of Indians of Chinese origin. Finally, it analyses how the conflict is viewed in India today and its ramifications for India-China relationship.
A major intervention in the Asian historical landscape, this book will be indispensable to scholars and researchers of modern history, especially of modern South Asia and China, international relations, defence and strategic studies, international politics and government. It will also be useful for think-tanks and government agencies.
Contents
Contents
List of maps
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction
LORENZ M. LUTHI AND AMIT R. DAS GUPTA
PART 1 Bilateral perspectives
1 India's relations with China, 1945-4
LORENZ M. LUTHI
2 Foreign Secretary Subimal Dutt and the prehistory of the Sino-Indian border war
AMIT R. DAS GUPTA
3 From 'Hindi-Chini Bhai-Bhai' to 'international class struggle' against Nehru: China's India policy and the frontier dispute, 1950-2
DAI CHAOWU
4 The strategic and regional contexts of the Sino-Indian border conflict: China's policy of conciliation with its neighbours
ERIC HYER
PART 2 International perspectives
5 The United States, Britain and the Sino-Indian border war
PAUL MCGARR
6 Pakistan and 1962
AMIT R. DAS GUPTA
7 The Soviet Union and the Sino-Indian border war, 1962
ANDREAS HILGER
8 Saving non-alignment: diplomatic efforts of major nonaligned countries and the Sino-Indian border conflict
JOVAN CˇAVOŠKI
PART 3 Domestic perspectives
9 Constitution of India and the 1962 war emergency: institutional re-alignments
IMTIAZ OMAR
10 Manufacturing radicals: the Sino-Indian War and the repression of communists in India
SUBHO BASU
11 The Chinese in India: internment, nationalism, and the embodied imprints of state action
PAYAL BANERJEE
12 Remembering 1962 in India, 50 years on
JABIN T. JACOB
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