1962 and the Macmohan Line Saga

M K Singh

Published by Sumit Enterprises, 2016

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Contents: Introduction. 1. The McMahon Line. 2. 1962 the Indian Parliament s Resolution on China. 3. Sino-Indian Border Dispute. 4. The Mystery of the McMahan Line and Sino-India War. 5. Events Leading to the Sino-Indian Conflict in 1962. 6. India s Relations with China. The McMahon Line is a line agreed to by Britain and Tibet as part of the Simla Accord, a treaty signed in 1914. It is the effective boundary between China and India, although its legal status is disputed by the Chinese government. The Sino-Indian War also known as the Sino-Indian Border Conflict was a war between China and India that occurred in 1962. A disputed Himalayan border was the main pretext for war, but other issues played a role. There had been a series of violent border incidents after the 1959 Tibetan uprising, when India had granted asylum to the Dalai Lama. India initiated a Forward Policy in which it placed outposts along the border, including several north of the McMahon Line, the eastern portion of a Line of Actual Control proclaimed by Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai in 1959. In the 1962 Sino-Indian War, China seized a Switzerland-sized area, Aksai Chin (Aksayqin), and overran Arunachal Pradesh (an Indian state the size of Austria). There are also other, smaller pockets of disputed area. The PRC withdrew from virtually all of Arunachal Pradesh to the Line of Actual Control (LAC), which approximates the McMahon Line that is found in a 1914 agreement initialed by British, Tibetan, and Chinese representatives. Chinese and Indian forces clashed in the Sumdorong Chu valley of Arunachal Pradesh in 1986-87. Relations began to thaw in 1988. It is hoped that the book will serve the purpose of students and scholars on the subject and can be useful to them in allied fields. Seller Inventory # 121268

Bibliographic Details

Title: 1962 and the Macmohan Line Saga

Publisher: Sumit Enterprises

Publication Date: 2016

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Edition: 1st Edition