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India-China Boundary Issues: Quest for Settlement
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324 pages, Hardcover
Published January 14, 2001
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April 1, 2025
A prescient read. Published in 2014, it forecasts much of the present state of play in the India-China relationship, in 2025. It is also prescient for its flagging of China's internal political, economic, and demographic troubles which were yet to manifest as significantly as they have today.
What sets this work apart is that it allocates considerable space to detailing the interregnum in the India-China relationship between the 1962 war and the normalisation 1988 onwards. Most works published in the past decade detail the 1962 war and then skip to the post-normalisation period. This work spends considerable time also exploring the state of play between 1962-1988. Nehru and China after the 1962 conflict, the 1965 and 1971 wars with Pakistan, the Shastri and Indira Gandhi years, the Emergency, the 1967 Nathu La clashes, the Wangdung incident and the Sumdorong Chu standoff.
The last chapter on "Why is There No Settlement So Far?" is particularly forward looking and again, insightful. Several works point to why a settlement would not be in China's interest, but this work sheds light on why a settlement may not necessarily be in India's interest as well. A settlement of the boundary dispute may not necessarily yield peace on the border - a thesis worth examining further.
The narrative on the 1962 war and the leadup to it is sometimes reductive and too readily conclusive.
Overall, a prescient, insightful, and above all, an enjoyable read.
What sets this work apart is that it allocates considerable space to detailing the interregnum in the India-China relationship between the 1962 war and the normalisation 1988 onwards. Most works published in the past decade detail the 1962 war and then skip to the post-normalisation period. This work spends considerable time also exploring the state of play between 1962-1988. Nehru and China after the 1962 conflict, the 1965 and 1971 wars with Pakistan, the Shastri and Indira Gandhi years, the Emergency, the 1967 Nathu La clashes, the Wangdung incident and the Sumdorong Chu standoff.
The last chapter on "Why is There No Settlement So Far?" is particularly forward looking and again, insightful. Several works point to why a settlement would not be in China's interest, but this work sheds light on why a settlement may not necessarily be in India's interest as well. A settlement of the boundary dispute may not necessarily yield peace on the border - a thesis worth examining further.
The narrative on the 1962 war and the leadup to it is sometimes reductive and too readily conclusive.
Overall, a prescient, insightful, and above all, an enjoyable read.
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