The Deadlocked Deadlock-Sino-lndian Boundary Dispute

This paper briefly recapitulates the origins of the Sino-lndian border dispute, the various menda- cities perpetrated in this regard by the British Indian government and the efforts by the government of Independent India to build further upon those foundations. It shows that even though both sides to the dispute are able to marshal voluminous legal evidence in support of their claims, making the issue appear as one of extreme complexity, this complexity is entirely fictitious and specious and is intended to conceal the almost elemental simplicity of the issues involved.