India and China, two of the oldest yet living civilizations had a glorious history of cultural and material exchanges. For over tow millennia, numerous ties have linked India and china in various domains. The famous silk road reminds us of the fabulous and touching stories, as also the perilous journeys carried out by scholar monks like Fa Xian, Xuan Zang from the Chinese side and Kumarajiva, Bodhidharma and many others from the Indian side over the towering mountains, scorching deserts and storming seas. It was the history of mutual learning and development, if Buddhism from India enriched the Chinese culture, the Chinese traditional culture equally left its imprint in India. It was this cultural cousinhood that developed into friendship and subsequently into camaraderie during first half of the twentieth century when both India and China fought western imperialism. It is owing to serious misconceptions that the relations deteriorated in the late 1950s that culminated into a brief armed conflict in 1962, and remains under the shadow of mutual distrust.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR B.R. Deepak
B.R. Deepak is working as an Associate Professor of Chinese at the Centre of Chinese and Southeast Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He is recipient of many scholarships and awards including the prestigious Nehru Fellowship and India-China Cultural Exchange Fellowship for his doctoral and advanced studies in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Peking University, Beijing, respectively. Dr. Deepak has received his MBA from the Lancaster University Management School, UK, and Ph.D. ion Chinese history and language from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. India and china 1904-2004: A Century of Peace and Conflict is the product of his postdoctoral studies (2002-2003) at the Scottish Centre for Chinese Studies in the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is the author of India-China Relations in first half of the Twentieth Century (2001), Zhongguo wenxueshi gaiyao jiqi daibiaozuo shanxi (Concise History of Chinese Literature with Selected Lliteraray Texts) (2001), Chinese-Hindi Dictionary (2003) and co-author of Sanyukt Rashtra Bhasha Kosh (United Nations Languages Dictionary) (2002), as well as other works on India-China relations. The author has been a guest lecturer in the University of Free Berlin and University of Bremen in Germany, and has taught Chinese language, literature and civilization in the University of Edinburgh, UK.
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