Beschreibung:
Bérénice Guyot-Réchard teaches International and South Asian History at King's College London. She was previously Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Her research explores the effects of social, political, and environmental processes on South Asia's contemporary international relations. She has recently published in Contemporary South Asia and Modern Asian Studies.
This book explores Sino-Indian tensions from the angle of state-building, showing how they stem from their competition for the Himalayan people's allegiance.
Introduction; Part I. 1910-50: 1. False starts: the first rush towards the eastern Himalayas; 2. The return of the fair-weather state: World War Two and the Himalayas; Part II. 1950-59: 3. Exploration, expansion, consolidation? State power and its limitations; 4. The art of persuasion: development in a border space; Part III. 1959-62: 5. A void screaming to be filled: militarisation and state-society relations; 6. Salt tastes the same in India and China: a different kind of security dilemma; 7. Open war: state-making's dress rehearsal; Conclusion.