Shadow states : India, China and the Himalayas, 1910-1962 /

"Since the mid-twentieth century, China and India have entertained a difficult relationship, erupting into open war in 1962. Shadow States is the first book to unpack Sino-Indian tensions from the angle of competitive state-building making - through a study of their simultaneous attempts to win...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Guyot-Réchard, Bérénice (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. 1910-1950 : 1. False starts : the first rush towards the eastern Himalayas
  • 2. The return of the fair-weather state : the second World War and the Himalayas
  • Part II. 1950-1959 : 3. Exploration, expansion, consolidation? State power and its limitations
  • 4. The art of persuasion : development in a border space
  • Part III. 1959-1962 : 5. A void screaming to be filled : militarisation and state-society relations
  • 6. Salt tastes the same in India and China : a different kind of security dilemma
  • 7. Open war : state-making's dress rehearsal
  • Conclusion.