Publications of Alex Tickell's "1962’s Sino-Indian border war lasted four weeks"

Alex Tickell’s Conversation article on the Chinese community in India during the Sino-Indian war of 1962 was published online on 7th November 2022.

As the Cuban missile crisis gripped the world’s attention 60 years ago, a less remembered conflict broke out high in the mountain passes of the Himalayas. Tensions had been mounting for months on the border between India and China and on October 20 the Chinese People’s Liberation Army attacked Indian forces on disputed territory and started the 1962 Sino-Indian war.

The origins of the conflict lay in two areas. First was the shifting, disputed frontier of colonial India, which ran across mountain peaks and glaciers. And second was the uncertain status of Tibet.

Read the article via the Conversation website