Through the India-China Border

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.