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	Publisher: Westland Books
	Author Maroof Raza
	Language: English
	Pages: 243
	Cover: PAPERBACK
	8.5x5.5 inch
	Weight 240 gm
	Edition: 2024
	ISBN: 97893577648412
	HBM108

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About the Book The rise of China is the most significant strategic challenge facing India today. And yet our understanding of what drives Chinese policy towards India remains severely limited. In this fascinating work, Maroof Raza, one of India's foremost defence writers, decodes China's border policy vis-à-vis India and its consequences for Indian security policy as well as Sino-Indian ties with a journalist's flair and an academic's insight.

He manages to combine strategic history and policy assessment with aplomb. A must-read for all who want to understand why the LAC will continue to be volatile for the foreseeable future!

About the Author 'Maroof Raza has brought a significant and insightful "historical perspective" on India-China relations that would allow a serious strategic thinker to build on how India needs to shape its behaviour to pursue and safeguard its national interests. The US is unlikely to give up its contest with China, and India, as China's neighbour, occupies the strategic ground that lies at the middle of this contest. Thus, pressure would come on India's military and diplomatic corps to steer India away from getting into the cross-hairs of two contesting powers, yet stand its ground.'

Foreword Contested Lands takes its readers through the history of India's boundary-making with Tibet and China, starting from the colonial period that involved intricate details of geophysical exploration across the Himalayas primarily driven by the British Empire's strategic consideration of keeping the Russian Empire at bay. In doing so, the British strategic masters astutely used Tibet as a pawn in the delicate balancing act between the various suitors competing for territorial expansion in Inner Asia.

Introduction My great-great grandfather, Rai Bahadur Dr Gokul Chand Malhotra, FRCS, a civil surgeon from Punjab, was born in 1845 in the twilight of the Sikh Empire founded by Maharaja Ranjit Singh. This empire was the greatest impediment to the consolidation of British rule in India and the British used every trick in the book to bring about its destruction by allying with Raja (later Maharaja) Gulab Singh, one of the pillars of this empire. Raja Gulab Singh was, however, a strategic visionary who expanded the writ of the Sikh Empire to Gilgit, Shahidullah, Ladakh, Aksai Chin and Minsar at the foothills of Mount Kailash, the holiest pilgrimage for Hindus and Tibetans.

Post 1846, when the British hived off the area of Jammu & Kashmir and bestowed it to the newly crowned Maharaja Gulab Singh, both he and his son, Maharaja Ranbir Singh, would in all probability have extended and consolidated the remit of their kingdom of Jammu & Kashmir to the annexation of Khotan in southern Sinkiang and Gartok in western Tibet. The latter had been conquered by General Zorawar Singh but lost to a Sino-Tibetan counter-attack in December 1841, when the failure of Sikh logistics led to the death of Zorawar Singh in the battle of To-Yo.

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