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In your Aug. 10 article “India’s thirst for progress,” you reported in a graphic that China invaded India in a 1962 border dispute.
I want to set the record straight. China did not invade India. Border war broke out between China and India in October 1962 and lasted about a month. All fighting took place within two pieces of disputed land, a largely uninhabited western sector next to Kashmir and a sparely populated eastern sector adjacent to Bhutan. Causes of the dispute dated back to British colonial time. The causes and the war were documented in Neville Maxwell’s book “India’s China War” (Doubleday Anchor Book, 1972).
