Essays in Frontier History: India, China, and the Disputed Border

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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 sharp contrast, the writings of the 1970s and early 1980s smack of the bitterness that followed the 1962 war. With time, relations improved- the decade of the nineties, thus emphasized on strategic partnership and building of trust. Mehra has added two new sections to his collection of essays. The first is the bibliographical notes that provide brief updates of writings and analyses on the subject by scholars and researchers or participants in bilateral negotiations between India and China. The other features summaries of individual essays, which the uninitiated reader will find most beneficial. Authored by one of India’s foremost scholars on India’s relations with Tibet and China, the book will be of interest to students and scholars of political science, international history, and international relations. Diplomats, bureaucrats, journalists, and the interested lay reader will find this volume engaging.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Parshotam Mehra

Parshotam Mehra formerly Professor of History and Central Asian Studies at the Panjab University, chandigarh, has written largely on India's northern frontiers and relations with Tibet and China. Among his publications mentions may be made of The North-West Frontier Drama 1945-47: A Reassessment (1998); An 'Agreed' Frontier, Ladakh and India's Northern Borders (1992); Tibetan Polity 1904-37 (1976); and The McMahon Line and After (1974). He has also compiled A Dictionary of Modern Indian History 1707-1947 (1985, 1987). Another of his books, 'From Conflict to Conciliation: Tibetan Polity Re-visited' is due to appeaer later this year. In researching for the new edition Professor Mehra has in a fresh chapter, 'A Hundred Years On', taken due note of an impressive array of all the literature that has appeared on the subject since the book first went into print.