China’s India War

Description

The Sino-Indian War of 1962 delivered a crushing defeat to India: not only did the country suffer a loss of lives and a heavy blow to its pride, the world began to see India as the provocateur of the war, with China ‘merely defending’ its territory. This perception that China was largely the innocent victim of Nehru’s hostile policies was put forth by journalist Neville Maxwell in his book India’s China War, which found readers in many opinion makers, including Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon. For far too long, Maxwell’s narrative, which sees India as the aggressor and China as the victim, has held court. Nearly 50 years after Maxwell’s book, Bertil Lintner’s China’s India War puts the ‘border dispute’ into its rightful perspective. Lintner argues that China began planning the war as early as 1959 and proposes that it was merely a small move in the larger strategic game that China was playing to become a world player—one that it continues to play even today.

About the Author

Bertil Lintner is a journalist and writer, currently with Asia Times and Asia Pacific Media Services.

Reviews

‘Meticulously researched...Highly recommended for both specialists and the general reader.’

- June Teufel Dreyer, professor of political science,University of Miami, Florida

Reviews of previous Edition

The book is a definite landmark in understanding the Chinese position on the border issue which will continue to be in the news in the post-Doklam scenario.

-The Hindu

Bertil Lintner has a formidable reputation as a journalist who has extensively explored what Nari Rustomji called our enchanted frontiers-our northeastern borderlands. His observations of the region are informative and balanced.

-India Today

Table of contents

Introduction

1. The Improbable Border Dispute
2. The Line
3. The Invasion
4. When the War Was Over
5. An Enchanted- and Endangered-Frontier
6. Gross National Happiness?
7. Maoism Redux
8. Borderlands and Oceans

Chronology
Bibliography
Index
About the Author