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The long shadow of colonial cartography: Britain and the Sino-Indian war of 1962

McGarr, Paul M.

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Paul M. McGarr



Abstract

© 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article examines British responses to the Sino-Indian border war of 1962. It illustrates how, in the years leading up to the war, Britain’s colonial legacy in the Indian subcontinent saw it drawn reluctantly into a territorial dispute between Asia’s two largest and most powerful nations. It analyses disagreements in Whitehall between the Foreign Office and Commonwealth Relations Office over the relative strength of India and China’s border claims, and assesses how these debates reshaped British regional policy. It argues that the border war was instrumental in transforming Britain’s post-colonial relationship with South Asia. Continuing to filter relations with India through an imperial prism proved unsatisfactory, what followed was a more pragmatic Indo-British association.

Citation

McGarr, P. M. (2020). The long shadow of colonial cartography: Britain and the Sino-Indian war of 1962. Journal of Strategic Studies, 42(5), 626-653. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402390.2019.1570147

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Sep 3, 2018
Online Publication Date Jan 30, 2019
Publication Date Jan 30, 2020
Deposit Date Sep 2, 2018
Publicly Available Date Jul 31, 2020
Journal Journal of Strategic Studies
Print ISSN 0140-2390
Electronic ISSN 1743-937X
Publisher Routledge
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 42
Issue 5
Article Number 5
Pages 626-653
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/01402390.2019.1570147
Keywords Political Science and International Relations; Sociology and Political Science
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1107394
Publisher URL https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01402390.2019.1570147
Additional Information Peer Review Statement: The publishing and review policy for this title is described in its Aims & Scope.; Aim & Scope: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&journalCode=fjss20; Published: 2019-01-30
Contract Date Dec 10, 2018

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