India and the South Asian strategic triangle
Ashok Kapur
Routledge
Introduction -- 1950s: from China-India pretensions and complicity to strategic contention -- Theory of strategic triangles and its relevance in the Indian subcontinent and Himalayan Zone -- Strategic triangles in the Himalayan Zone: pre-1949 history and 1949-50 -- The making of Sino-Indian conflict: role of bilateral actions-reactions, third party foreign influences and domestic politics in foreign policy -- The inevitability of Sino-Indian conflict -- India regrouped, China's irredentist escalation continued (1962), and the China-India-Pakistan triangle emerged (1963- ) -- Sino-Indian manoeuvres that led to a strategic stalemate and conflict formation -- Current dynamics and a look to the future