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Great game east India, China, and the struggle for Asia's most volatile frontier

Since the 1950s, China and India have been locked in a monumental battle for geopolitical supremacy. Chinese interest in the ethnic insurgencies in northeastern India, the still unresolved issue of the McMahon Line, the border established by the British imperial government, and competition for strat...

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Main Author: Lintner, Bertil (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven Yale University Press 2015
Subjects:
Geopolitics > Asia
India > Foreign relations > China
China > Foreign relations > India
India > Foreign relations > Asia
Asia > Foreign relations > India
China > Foreign relations > Asia
Asia > Foreign relations > China
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Table of Contents:
  • War and spookery in the Himalayas
  • The Nagas: challenging the idea of India
  • The Mizos: from famine to statehood
  • Manipur: the eternal imbroglio
  • Assam and Bangladesh: foreigners? what foreigners?
  • Burma: a state of revolt
  • The Indian ocean: a tale of two islands
  • Postscript.

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