Conlang Geopolitics
The Himalayan Chessboard
The India–China Story
Where empires watch and borders whisper.
Format
Hardcover Deluxe
Pages
448
Language
English
Release
2026
Editorial Note
The definitive single-volume account of the India–China relationship — from Panchsheel to Galwan to the next quiet quarter-century.
§ Synopsis
Inside the book.
Two civilisations. Three thousand kilometres of shared frontier. Seven decades of a relationship that has swung between poetry, war, trade, silence, and standoff. The Himalayan Chessboard is the first single-volume attempt to hold all of it in one narrative.
Built on declassified MEA papers, PLA-adjacent scholarship, Chinese-language sources, and interviews with three former Indian ambassadors to Beijing, this deluxe hardcover reconstructs the relationship from Panchsheel and Bandung through the 1962 war, the Rajiv Gandhi thaw, Doklam, Galwan, and the quiet, chess-like manoeuvres of the last twenty-four months.
§ Table of Contents
Chapters.
- 01Prelude — Two Civilisations, One Line
- 02Book I — Panchsheel to 1962
- 03Book II — The Long Silence
- 04Book III — Rajiv, Vajpayee, Manmohan
- 05Book IV — Doklam & Galwan
- 06Book V — The Quiet Quarter-Century
- 07Coda — Where Empires Watch
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§ Press & Reviews
The critics say.
“The India–China book Indian publishing has been circling for a decade.”
— The Hindu Books
“Reads like a strategic paper. Writes like a novel.”
— Foreign Policy — Asia Desk
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