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The Deoliwallahs
Author: Joy Ma
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 2020-01-23
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1529048869
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Humanly compelling, beautifully told ... brings to light a forgotten chapter of Indian history, one we need to remember in these troubled times' PRATAP BHANU MEHTA '[Joy Ma and Dilip D'Souza] have seamlessly woven together historical facts with personal stories about how the Chinese- Indians lost the country of their birth' YIN MARSH The untold account of the internment of 3,000 Chinese-Indians after the 1962 Sino-Indian War. Just after the Sino-Indian War of 1962, about 3,000 Chinese-Indians were sent to languish in a disused World War II POW camp in Deoli, Rajasthan, marking the beginning of a painful five-year-long internment without resolution. At a time of war with China, these ‘Chinese-looking’ people had fallen prey to government suspicion and paranoia which soon seeped into the public consciousness. This is a page of Indian history that comes wrapped in prejudice and fear, and is today largely forgotten. But over five decades on, survivors of the internment are finally starting to tell their stories. As several Indian communities are once again faced with discrimination, The Deoliwallahs records these untold stories through extensive interviews with seven survivors of the Deoli internment. Through these accounts, the book recovers a crucial chapter in our history, also documenting for the first time how the Chinese came to be in India, how they made this country their home and became a significant community, until the war of 1962 brought on a terrible incarceration, displacement and tragedy.
China’s India War
Author: Bertil Lintner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-01-25
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 0199091633
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Sino-Indian War of 1962 delivered a crushing defeat to India: not only did the country suffer a loss of lives and a heavy blow to its pride, the world began to see India as the provocateur of the war, with China ‘merely defending’ its territory. This perception that China was largely the innocent victim of Nehru’s hostile policies was put forth by journalist Neville Maxwell in his book India’s China War, which found readers in many opinion makers, including Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon. For far too long, Maxwell’s narrative, which sees India as the aggressor and China as the victim, has held court. Nearly 50 years after Maxwell’s book, Bertil Lintner’s China’s India War puts the ‘border dispute’ into its rightful perspective. Lintner argues that China began planning the war as early as 1959 and proposes that it was merely a small move in the larger strategic game that China was playing to become a world player—one that it continues to play even today.
1962
Author: Vinay Shankar (Retired army officer)
Publisher: Vij Books India
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9789384464769
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The 1962 War was indeed a traumatic experience for the Indian arms. While India held a belief that China would not resort to a large scale military action; the Chinese on the other hand had been preparing for it since 1959. This book is a narrative that is designed to fill a great void that has existed all these years about this War.
India's China War
Author: Neville Maxwell
Publisher:
Published: 2015-01-01
Total Pages: 549
ISBN-13: 9788181582508
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is one of those rare books that puts an entirely new light on a chapter of history, and it must be read by anyone concerned with international affairs. Although cool and scholarly it unrolls like a fascinating thriller. It is an important work of revisionist history and a gruesome study of the way in which wars start, superbly documented (largely from official Indian sources but also from secret Indian papers) and beautifully sustained. By showing how India led the world up the garden path it demolishes and throws to the wind a pillar of the 'contain China' doctrine -- the belief that in 1962 India was the victim of unprovoked Chinese aggression. Maxwell's book is magnificent on every count, an historical achievement of the first rank.
Understanding the Sino-Indian War, 1962
Author: Gautam Das
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9788124117668
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Escape from Namka Chu
Author: Madan M. Bhanot
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9789383649563
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →1962
Author: Shiv Kunal Verma
Publisher: Rupa Publications
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 9789382277972
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An Indian politician looks back at her journey and recounts how the going got tougher with her every success, perhaps because she was a woman. Life among the Scorpions recounts the deeply fascinating and often tumultuous events that mark thirty years of Jaya Jaitly's political journey. From arranging relief for victims of the 1984 Sikh riots, to joining politics under firebrand leader George Fernandes, to becoming the president of Samata Party-a key ally in the erstwhile NDA Government, Jaitly's rise in Indian mainstream politics invited both awe and envy. But the going has been far from smooth. Trouble began with George Fernandes sacking Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat in 1998. Jaitly became the target. She was soon hounded by Tehelka's stings-first concerning her son-in-law-to-be Ajay Jadeja and then herself in an alleged bribery case. Eventually, Fernandes had to resign as India's Defence Minister, despite being the best, and Jaitly quit as the Samata Party President. Meanwhile, she spiritedly fought booth capturing in Bihar as well as fellow party men's egos, intervened and ensured the installation of the Samata government in Manipur. All this, even as she continued her parallel fight for the livelihood of craftsmen on the one hand, and conceptualized and ensured establishment of the first Dilli Haat (crafts market place) in 1994 on the other. With all the backstories of major events in Indian politics between 1970-2000, including her experience of dealing with the Commission of Inquiry and courts regarding the Tehelka stings, the story of Jaya Jaitly makes for a riveting read. A powerful narrative on why being a woman in politics was for her akin to being surrounded by scorpions; this hard hitting memoir offers a perspective on the functioning of Indian politics from a woman's point of view.
The 1962 India - China War
Author: Sandeep Mukherjee
Publisher:
Published: 2023-05-30
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789357040228
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"For decades the real facts about India's catastrophic defeat in the 1962 war with China, have remained shrouded in mystery. Innuendoes, emotional tirades, politicized accusations, personalized mud slinging and rumours have substituted cold, hard and documented facts. This book seeks to address this major gap in Indian military history, trace accountabilities for this monumental failure and plead for historical justice for those wronged. The author presents facts from long suppressed enquiry commission-reports, official history, Chinese sources and documented studies by international scholars. The professional background and qualifications of the major dramatis personae have been analyzed, their recorded decisions scanned and relevant actions revealed. The relevant portions that have been referred to, from published memoirs of the key players, have either remained undisputed over decades, or corroboration from other authentic sources have been provided. Hearsay and unsubstantiated anecdotes have been left out as far as possible, recorded evidence provided with each proposition and inference. Satellite imagery has been extensively used to give readers a comprehensive feel of the battle area and the surrounding locale. All relevant features and important locations have been plotted on these images. An honest endeavour has been made to make the readers experience the reality of the battle-ground, terrain and conditions, by means of thorough detailing and vivid descriptions. "
Escape from Namka Chu: A Love Story Based on India-China War 1962
Author:
Publisher: KW Publishers Pvt Ltd
Published: 2015-07-15
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9385714090
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is a fiction love story focussing on the privations suffered by the protagonists as a fall out of the India–China conflict of 1962. All characters and names are fictitious and imaginary and any semblance to the living or dead is purely incidental. It is not a true narration of the conflict, which is merely a means for the main protagonists to ride on till the conclusion of the story.
