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“After Indian Independence India-China relations started on a high note, but during the course of the coming years India had to face a bitter experience due to the Chinese aggression.” Elaborate.

  • UPSC 2020
  • Consolidation as a Nation

The trajectory of Sino-Indian ties between 1947 and 1962 moved from Asian solidarity to national humiliation.

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  • The High Note: Building an Asian Partnership (1949-1954)
  • Panchsheel and Bandung
  • Fault Lines Beneath the Friendship
  • From Friendship to Confrontation (1957-1961)
  • The Bitter Experience: The 1962 War and Its Aftermath

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