Research Catalog

Title

China's India war of 1962 : how Mao united the world's largest democracy / Sudhir K. Pednekar.

Author

Pednekar, Sudhir K., 1938-

Publication

• Baden, Switzerland : Sushila Publishers, 2019.
• ©2017

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Details

Description

xxii, 382 pages : illustration, maps; 25 cm

Subject

• Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976
• Since 1957
• Sino-Indian Border Dispute, 1957-
• Conflit frontalier sino-indien, 1957-
• Diplomatic relations
• Military relations
• India > Military relations > China
• China > Military relations > India
• India > Foreign relations > China > Tibet Autonomous Region
• Tibet Autonomous Region (China) > Foreign relations > China
• Inde > Relations extérieures > Chine > Région autonome du Tibet
• Région autonome du Tibet (Chine) > Relations extérieures > Chine
• China
• China > Tibet Autonomous Region
• India

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-375) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Frontiers and borders : understanding terminology -- Borders under British India and after independence -- Indian Army : formation and regimental structure -- Tibet : the ultimate reason for the 1962 war? -- The forward policy, which triggered the 1962 war -- Failure of the IB under Intelligence Czar Mullik -- Blitzkrieg : humiliating defeat in the 1962 war -- Why the IAF was not used in an offensive role -- Why a military coup is not possible in India -- How Mao united the largest democracy and averted a possible coup d'État -- Heroic advice ignored by Prime Minister Nehru -- Guilty Indian War theatre actors -- Chinese theatre actors -- Tragedy : Nehru gifts Gilgit to Pakistan and India is shut out of Central Asia.

ISBN

• 9783033064331
• 3033064337

LCCN

2019335038

OCLC

• 1099125374
• SCSB-14493049

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library