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India’s China War by Neville Maxwell reveals an in depth analysis about the events leading up to and during the 1962 war between India and China.
Summary Of The Book
According to Maxwell, the borders that the British had arbitrated in India, ceased to exist after they left. Since India had simply inherited these borders from their colonizers, it became a point of dispute for the Chinese. Using this as his central point, Maxwell then proceeds to build on his viewpoint in India’s China War by presenting information that he gathered from inside sources about the still classified Henderson Brooks-Bhagat Report.
In India’s China War, readers will be privy to many aspects of the Sino-Indian conflict. Topics such as The Forward Policy, The View From Peking, and details about the Ceasefire between both nations have been included. Maxwell also provides a detailed account about the chronological events that followed during the war such as how each nation reacted when the conflict began, which country sided with India, and which ones simply ignored it plea for assistance.
From the start, readers are aware that Maxwell sides with the Chinese, which is evident from the information he provides in the text. Critics of this text state that Maxwell’s account of the war was one-sided and that he failed to provide any evidence from the Chinese perspective of the war simply because he was not privy to the information. Some of the author’s predictions in the text were also subject to speculation since they failed to deliver. One such example is Maxwell’s assumption that India would fail to remain a democracy after the 1960s and that turning into a democracy in the first place for mistake to begin with.
Although, India’s China War did not receive any awards, it is often regarded as a vital source of information about the Sino-Indian conflict of 1962.
ISBN - 9788181581464
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Pages : 475
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