‘The Fractured Himalaya: India, China, Tibet 1949-1962’ review: A march to estrangement
The Hindu
The history of the critical initial years of a political relationship when India and China tried to manage issues such as the boundary question, and failed
Nirupama Rao has written what will certainly be an authoritative text for a long time to come on India-Tibet-China interactions in the early years of the republic leading up to the war of 1962.
This is a scholarly work, infused with her long experience of the boundary question and of dealing with China in various capacities in the Ministry of External Affairs, as Ambassador to China, and as Foreign Secretary. She has buttressed her deep experience with original scholarship in the archives that are now open internationally to students of that period.
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