2024/11/28 by Prem Poddar, Lisa Lindkvist Zhang · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #South Asian Studies and Conflicts
paper · doi:10.1017/9781009499347
openalex publication_date 2024/11/28 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
Through the India-China Border mobilizes rarely used documentary material from British, Chinese and Indian archives to shed new light on our understanding of the 'Tibet Question' in China-India relations. Focused on the Himalayan border town of Kalimpong from the 1920s to 1962, it unearths a history of espionage and political intrigue that challenges the way that remote peripheries are seen from the 'centres' of nations. The innovative use of postcolonial and transcultural theory demonstrates how a multidisciplinary framework augments our reading of imperial histories, postwar politics, decolonisation and frontier cultures. Kalimpong emerges from this analysis as a key node in Himalayan history and in the mid-century fashioning of India-China relations.