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''Himalayan Blunder'' was an extremely controversial war memoir penned by Brigadier John Dalvi. It dealt with the causes, consequences and aftermath of the Sino-Indian War of 1962, that ended in Chinese People's Liberation Army inflicting a defeat on India. The title seems to allude to the "Himalayan miscalculation" that Gandhi discusses in his autobiographical article for April 14, 1919,〔("Articles By Gandhi: A Himalayan Miscalculation - April 14, 1919" ) (accessed 10 June 2012)〕 and which retained this title as Chapter 33 in Gandhi's autobiography. Brigadier Dalvi served in the Indian Army and gives a first-person account of the war. The book was banned by the Indian Government after its publication. Because of the book, the term "Himalayan blunder" came to be used as a synonym for colossal failure in the context of Indian politics. == The Content == The book begins with the narration of Brig. Dalvi's days in the DSSC, Wellington. He narrates an incident where a guest faculty, a retired British official, after hearing that Nehru had signed Panchsheel agreement with China and had decided to give up the post in Tibet that the British had maintained in Tibet to check Chinese advance, interrupted his class and warned that India and China would soon be at war and people in this class would be fighting it. Brig. Dalvi remembers that he was very angry with the gentleman questioning the authority of the gentleman to criticise the leader of his country. Brig. Dalvi also examines the position of Tibet ''vis-a-vis'' India and China. The British, he says, had insight into China's imperial ambitions. They had therefore cultivated Tibet as a buffer state. Expectedly, the Chinese attacked Tibet in 1950 and captured it. India did not protest the attack owing to Nehru's China-friendly policy. The Chinese began constructing roads from Tibet leading to Aksai Chin near Ladakh. The Chinese had two major claims with respect to Indian territories - 1) Aksai Chin in the northeastern section of Ladakh District in Jammu and Kashmir. 2) British-designated North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA), which is the present-day state of Arunachal Pradesh. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Himalayan Blunder」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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