TY - BOOK AU - Bhasin,A.S TI - Nehru, Tibet and China SN - 9780670094134 U1 - 327.54051 PY - 2021/// CY - Haryana PB - Penguin KW - Sino-Indian Border Dispute, 1957- KW - Diplomatic relations KW - Politics and government KW - China--Tibet Autonomous Region KW - India N2 - "On 1 October 1949, the People's Republic of China came into being and changed forever the course of Asian history. Power moved from the hands of the nationalist Kuomintang government to the Communist Party of China headed by Mao Tse Tung. All of a sudden, it was not only an assertive China that India had to deal with but also an increasingly complex situation in Tibet which was reeling under pressure from China. Clearly, newly independent India, with Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru at its helm, was navigating very choppy waters. Its relations with China progressively deteriorated, eventually leading to the Indo-China war in 1962. Today, more than six decades after the war, we are still plagued by border disputes with China that seem to routinely grab the headlines. It leads one to question what exactly went on during those initial years of the emergence of a new China"--Publisher's summary ER -