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In the light of contentions over the McMohon Line, analyse the India-China relations in the 1950s and 1960s.

  • UPSC 2022
  • Consolidation as a Nation

The McMahon Line was less a settled frontier than a contested legal artefact that shaped the entire arc of Sino-Indian relations across two decades.

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  • Origins and Legal Basis of the McMahon Line
  • The Chinese Contention and Its Legal Logic
  • Entanglement with the Western Sector: Aksai Chin
  • The 1950s: Managing Ambiguity Beneath "Hindi-Chini Bhai-Bhai"
  • Escalation and the 1962 War
  • Legacy: From Contested Line to Line of Actual Control

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