Part 1 Bilateral perspectives; 1 India's relations with China, 1945-74; 2 Foreign Secretary Subimal Dutt and the prehistory of the Sino-Indian border war; 3 From 'Hindi-Chini Bhai-Bhai' to 'international class struggle' against Nehru: China's India policy and the frontier dispute, 1950-62; 4 The strategic and regional contexts of the Sino-Indian border conflict: China's policy of conciliation with its neighbours; Part 2 International perspectives. 5 The United States, Britain and the Sino-Indian border war6 Pakistan and 1962; 7 The Soviet Union and the Sino-Indian border war, 1962; 8 Saving non-alignment: diplomatic efforts of major non-aligned countries and the Sino-Indian border conflict; Part 3 Domestic perspectives; 9 Constitution of India and the 1962 war emergency: institutional re-alignments; 10 Manufacturing radicals: the Sino-Indian War and the repression of communists in India; 11 The Chinese in India: internment, nationalism, and the embodied imprints of state action; 12 Remembering 1962 in India, 50 years on; Index.