Watershed 1967
Watershed 1967: India's Forgotten Victory over China  is a book by Probal Dasgupta, a former Indian army veteran. The book was published by Juggernaut Books and was released in February 2020. The book narrates the accounts of the events during 1967 when the troops from India and China clashed at the heights of Cho La and Nathu La at the Sikkim border and the events following after it. Overview

The book provides descriptive accounts of the period after the first India-China War in 1962, leading to the India-Pakistan war in 1965. The narrative extends to the period after 1967, which includes the events leading to the India-Pakistan war in 1971, along with the impact and repercussions in history on relations between India and China. The book mentions the various standoffs between India and China in the last 50 years, including the Sumdorung Chu in 1987, Depsang, Dault Beg Oldi, and Doklam in 2017 besides also describing other key events, military and political leadership issues, their significance and impact on India's international relations, especially with China. Reception

The book has been reviewed and featured in mainstream media by The Telegraph (India), Business Standard, and The Hindu, Outlook, and Mathrubhumi. The book also appeared at the Military Literature Festival in Chandigarh in Dec 2020. Shekhar Gupta, an Indian Author and a Journalist, described it as “[An] engagingly written page-turner of a book… a valuable addition to the still thin genre of military biography in India” while Husain Haqqani, Author of India vs. Pakistan, said that the book “Sheds light on little known facts…” and is “…critical for anyone following the India-China competition”. The book received the attention of the Former Retired Air Vice Marshal Arjun Subramaniam, the author of India's Wars, who praised the book for being “Well-researched…” and added that, “DasGupta is a gifted storyteller with a real feel for battle.”

Oxford historian and China scholar Rana Mitter writes that the book, Watershed 1967 “.....makes a convincing case that the Indian victory in 1967 forced a rethink by China that ultimately shaped the subcontinent. This fascinating and captivating book will be an excellent guide to comprehend why the scars in the China-India relationship have not yet healed.”....and finds DasGupta's prose “full of clipped emotion describing how it must have felt when the bullets started to fly.”

The rights for the book were acquired by Story Ink, a Mumbai-based books-to-film agency that hopes to create a film based on it in the near future with the partnership of Vikram Lamba of Bion Films. References 

2020 non-fiction books
History books about India
Military books
Juggernaut Books books