Almost towards the fag-end of the Great Game (ca 1800-1907), aptly called the cold war of the Victorian era, the British mounted an armed expedition to Lhasa. Their objective, to nip in the bud mounting suspicions of St Petersburg coming to an understanding with Manchu china over Tibet. The Tsar, it was remoured, had cut a secret deal with the Dalai Lama and promised him help in munitions-and men! India’s then governor general (1899-1905), the irascrible Lord ...
This volume comes at a time when India and China are constructively engaged in furthering strategic bilateral ties. Comprising nearly a dozen essays, it focuses on the long simmering boundary dispute between Asia's two major powers. Written over a span of nearly fifty years, the papers reflect the circumstances and political mood of the period in which they were composed. The earliest goes back to the mind 1950s highlighting the 'Hindi-chini bhai-bhai' phase. In ...