![]() ![]() Maxwell's book was initially banned by the Indian government. The two non-Indian works extensively quoted are Dorothy Woodman's Himalayan Frontiers and Neville Maxwell's, India's China War. Some of its extracts have been recently leaked as we shall see in a while. The much hyped Henderson Brooks Bhagat Report, the only official inquiry ordered in 1963 still remains under wraps. ![]() These are primarily aimed at self-redemption crying foul of all else. Palit's War in the High Himalayas are essentially memoirs based on personal memory devoid of authentic evidence like a war diary. Of the Indian accounts that hit the book stalls later, B.M. Nehru's personal stature being at stake the clampdown seemed to be officially sponsored. A stunned nation felt cheated and awaited explanation. In India, however, with her claims to be the world's largest democracy, the deafening silence was incomprehensible. In China, understandably, no analytical accounts could be expected. ![]() Little credible information had been released to public view from either side. Most war accounts that appeared soon afterwards were predictably subjective. ![]()
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