ABOUT THE BOOK
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This volume deals with
one of the most complicated inter-state border disputes involving India and
China-the two most populous countries in the world. Sino-Indian border is
conveniently divided into three sectors-Western, Middle and Eastern Sectors.
The focus of the volume is on the Eastern Sector where China claims 98000
square kilometer of territory lying south of the McMahon Line presently under
Indian occupation that roughly corresponds to Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh
which China calls South Tibet.
The contributions in
this volume interrogate the nature of contesting claim over Arunachal Pradesh
by the two neighbouring nations, question the adequacy of historical evidences
behind such claims, analyze the dynamics of territorial politics being
played out by them in order to obfuscate their mutual role in the politics of
containment to each other, and caution to the danger of nuclear holocaust in
the event of any sort of war adventurism as the war-waging capacity in them has
metamorphosed from conventional to nuclear capability.
The contributors have
emphasized the benefits of “cooperative relationship” between India and China
which can open up immense opportunities in terms of enhancement of bilateral
trade, investment and technology and underlined the costs of “adversarial
relationship” that might ruin the aspirations of the people. They have
suggested for a pragmatic approach towards the resolution of the border dispute
particularly in the Eastern Sector by way of converting the Line of Actual
Control into international border between them with a “give and take”
spirit.
ABOUT Author
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Gurudas Das (1960) is a faculty in
the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of
Technology Silchar, Assam. He is the author of Security and Development in India`s
Northeast.
C Joshua Thomas (1960) is the Deputy
Director, Indian Council of Social Science Research, North Eastern Regional
Centre, Shillong, Meghalaya. He is the joint editor (with Gurudas Das) of
India-China: Trade and Strategy for Frontier Development.
Nani Bath, a
recipient of IPSA Young Political Scientist Award, is Professor in the
Department of Political Science, Rajiv Gandhi University, Itanagar. Having done
his B.A. (Hons.) in Sociology from University of Delhi, he joined Jawaharlal
Nehru University for masters in International Politics. He has written articles
for books and journals, and contributes regularly in local newspapers.