Shadow States: India, China and the Himalayas, 1910-1962

Bérénice  Guyot-Réchard

Shadow States: India, China and the Himalayas, 1910-1962

Bérénice Guyot-Réchard

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Abstract

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 - through a study of their simultaneous attempts to win the approval and support of the Himalayan people. When China and India tried to expand into the Himalayas in the twentieth century, their lack of strong ties to the region and the absence of an easily enforceable border made their proximity threatening - observing China and India's state-making efforts, local inhabitants were in a position to compare and potentially choose between them. Using rich and original archival research, Berenice Guyot-Rechard shows how India and China became each other's 'shadow states'. Understanding these recent, competing processes of state formation in the Himalayas is fundamental to understanding the roots of tensions in Sino-Indian relations.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Cambridge
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Number of pages	348
ISBN (Electronic)	9781316829776
ISBN (Print)	9781107176799, 9781316627242
Publication status	Published - Oct 2016

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Keywords

Tibet
Himalayas
South Asia
India
North-East India
International Relations
Conflict
State-building
China
Borderlands
Sino-Indian relations
Geopolitics
Territorial disputes
World politics
History
Nation-building
Territorial expansion
Sino-Indian Border Dispute, 1957-

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