01597nam a22002177a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802800690007608200160014510000250016124500500018626000940023630000320033036500080036252008870037065000100125765000290126765000340129665000250133070000240135520221219140710.0221219b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780670094134  a: Amazon.inb: Cocoblu Retail Com.c: LK01-3533204d: 27/10/2022  a327.540 BHA  aBhasin, Avtar Singh.  aNehru, Tibet and Chinac/ Avtar Singh Bhasin.  a, Gurugram, Haryana, Indiab: Penguin/Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random Housec, 2021.  axxvii, 402 pages c; 23 cm.  b409  a"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"  aChina  aChina Foreign relations   aChina Tibet Autonomous Region  aDiplomatic relations  aAvtar Singh Bhasin.