Tag Archives: Indo-China War

HOW WE GOT HERE – Excerpted from ‘Dragon On Our Doorstep’ by Pravin Sawhney and Ghazala Wahab

On the evening of 6 August 1947, with the partition of the subcontinent looming, a party to bid farewell to officers assigned to the Pakistan Army was in full swing…

Blanks on the Map – An Excerpt from Shiv Kunal Verma’s ‘1962: The War that Wasn’t’

This treaty of 1842 settled the boundary between Ladakh and Tibet in unequivocal terms leaving no cause for any kind of border dispute in this region. * Arguments and counter-arguments…