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Indian Approaches To Modern China-I a Socio-Historical Analysis

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  • Krishna Prakash Gupta

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Dominant Indian approaches to China have been marked by empathy emanating from visions of Asian unity and resurgence. At no stage has this been reciprocated by China. This paper surveys Sino-Indian images at various periods in the last seventy years. India's initial quest fer a united spiritual front, subsequently transformed into the ideal of political co-existence, is contrasted with China's Sinocentric images of cultural superiority and indifference to Indian values. This remained true even at the apex of the bhai-bhai period when Indians spontaneously accepted China as an alternative model of development, but China continued to reject the Indian experiment, notwithstanding certain deceptive gestures of cultural exchange programmes. China's political system and the 1962 war have not affected this fundamental asymmetry. The latest evidence is also examined with reference to Sino-Indian perceptions of each other during the Bangladesh liberation movement.

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  • Krishna Prakash Gupta, 1972. "Indian Approaches To Modern China-I a Socio-Historical Analysis," China Report, , vol. 8(4), pages 29-51, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:chnrpt:v:8:y:1972:i:4:p:29-51
    DOI: 10.1177/000944557200800404
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