Ashok Kapur is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Political Science,University of Waterloo, Canada. He is author of several major works including India - From Regional to World Power (also published by Routledge), and is co-author of Government & Politics in South Asia, 6th edition.

• 1. Introduction 2. 1950s: From China-India Pretensions and Complicity to Strategic Contentions 3. Theory of Strategic Triangles and its relevance in the Indian Subcontinent and Himalayan Zone 4. Strategic Triangles in the Himalayan Zone; pre-1949 History and 1949-50 5. The Making of Sino-Indian Conflict: Role of Bilateral Actions- Reactions, Third Party Foreign Influences & Domestic Politics in Foreign Policy 6. The Inevitability of Sino-Indian Conflict 7. India Regrouped, China’s Irredentist Escalation Continued (1962- ) and the China-India-Pakistan Triangle Emerged (1963- ) 8. Sino-Indian Manoeuvres That Led to a Strategic Stalemate and Conflict Formation 9. Current Dynamics and a Look to the Future

Ashok Kapur is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Political Science,University of Waterloo, Canada. He is author of several major works including India - From Regional to World Power (also published by Routledge), and is co-author of Government & Politics in South Asia, 6th edition.

• 1. Introduction 2. 1950s: From China-India Pretensions and Complicity to Strategic Contentions 3. Theory of Strategic Triangles and its relevance in the Indian Subcontinent and Himalayan Zone 4. Strategic Triangles in the Himalayan Zone; pre-1949 History and 1949-50 5. The Making of Sino-Indian Conflict: Role of Bilateral Actions- Reactions, Third Party Foreign Influences & Domestic Politics in Foreign Policy 6. The Inevitability of Sino-Indian Conflict 7. India Regrouped, China’s Irredentist Escalation Continued (1962- ) and the China-India-Pakistan Triangle Emerged (1963- ) 8. Sino-Indian Manoeuvres That Led to a Strategic Stalemate and Conflict Formation 9. Current Dynamics and a Look to the Future

Ashok Kapur is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Political Science,University of Waterloo, Canada. He is author of several major works including India - From Regional to World Power (also published by Routledge), and is co-author of Government & Politics in South Asia, 6th edition.

• 1. Introduction 2. 1950s: From China-India Pretensions and Complicity to Strategic Contentions 3. Theory of Strategic Triangles and its relevance in the Indian Subcontinent and Himalayan Zone 4. Strategic Triangles in the Himalayan Zone; pre-1949 History and 1949-50 5. The Making of Sino-Indian Conflict: Role of Bilateral Actions- Reactions, Third Party Foreign Influences & Domestic Politics in Foreign Policy 6. The Inevitability of Sino-Indian Conflict 7. India Regrouped, China’s Irredentist Escalation Continued (1962- ) and the China-India-Pakistan Triangle Emerged (1963- ) 8. Sino-Indian Manoeuvres That Led to a Strategic Stalemate and Conflict Formation 9. Current Dynamics and a Look to the Future