India s northern border stretches from the north-western tip of the state of Jammu and Kashmie in the west to the north-eastern point of Arunachal pradesh(earlier called North-East frontier Agency or NEFA)in the ...Read more >

India s northern border stretches from the north-western tip of the state of jammu and Kashmir in the west to the north-eastern point of Arunachal pradesh in the ...Read more >

One of the basic tenets of the foreign policy of independent India has been to maintain close and cordial relation with ...Read more >

Though the Chinese Government had converted a frontier which had been an undisturbed frontier of peace for centuries into an area of tension and ...Read more >

As seen earlier, the relations between India and China had much embittered by the summer of 1962. Shooting incidents between Indian and Chinese troops had started frequently in ...Read more >

After the Indian troops vacated Tawang on 23 Octobar 1962, the Chinese occupied it. But they did not pursue the Indians and stopped their push north of Tawang ...Read more >

Besides Kameng, the only area in Arunachal Pradesh witnessing major and intense fighting was Walong in the in the Lohit Frontier ...Read more >

The first problem faced by a soldier in Ladakh is survival, fighting the enemy comes only after that. The peculiar geography of the region had a major impact on the fighting and its ...Read more >

The first problem faced by a soldier in Ladakh is survival, fighting the enemy comes only after that. The peculiar geography of the region had a major impact on the fighting and its ...Read more >

The role of the Indian Air Force in the conflict is significant in more ways than one. On the one hand, the paucity of road communications on the Indian side of the border was such that the ...Read more >

The dawn of 20 November 1962 was the blackest in the military history of independent India. The nation appeared to be in peril. The age old belief in the impregnability of the Himalayan barrier stood ...Read more >

In a fundamental sense, the origins of 1962 Sino-Indian conflict lay in Chinese expansionism and occupation of Tibet. The issue got further aggravated due to failure of Chinese to win over the ...Read more >

This monograph presents a detailed account of the conflict with China in 1962. Many books have already been published on those tragic events, including several memoirs on those tragic ...Read more >

This is the third in a series of three working papers on the Sino - Indian border dispute. This section III deals with the period from early 1961 through the time of the most serious clashes in autumn ...Read more >

This is a working paper, the first of three on the Sino-Indian border dispute. This paper traces the political factors which led initially to the dispute and later to the attack of 20 Oct ...Read more >