Guyot-Réchard / Guyot-Rechard Shadow States

India, China and the Himalayas, 1910–1962
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-316-82977-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

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Since the mid-twentieth century China and India have entertained a difficult relationship, erupting into open war in 1962. Shadow States is the first book to unpack Sino-Indian tensions from the angle of competitive state-building - through a study of their simultaneous attempts to win the approval and support of the Himalayan people. When China and India tried to expand into the Himalayas in the twentieth century, their lack of strong ties to the region and the absence of an easily enforceable border made their proximity threatening - observing China and India's state-making efforts, local inhabitants were in a position to compare and potentially choose between them. Using rich and original archival research, Bérénice Guyot-Réchard shows how India and China became each other's 'shadow states'. Understanding these recent, competing processes of state formation in the Himalayas is fundamental to understanding the roots of tensions in Sino-Indian relations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Guyot-Réchard, Bérénice

Guyot-Rechard, Berenice

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Part I. 1910–50: 1. False starts: the first rush towards the eastern Himalayas; 2. The return of the fair-weather state: World War Two and the Himalayas; Part II. 1950–9: 3. Exploration, expansion, consolidation? State power and its limitations; 4. The art of persuasion: development in a border space; Part III. 1959–62: 5. A void screaming to be filled: militarisation and state-society relations; 6. Salt tastes the same in India and China: a different kind of security dilemma; 7. Open war: state-making's dress rehearsal; Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Guyot-Réchard, Bérénice
Bérénice Guyot-Réchard teaches International and South Asian History at King's College London. She was previously Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Her research explores the effects of social, political, and environmental processes on South Asia's contemporary international relations. She has recently published in Contemporary South Asia and Modern Asian Studies.