In the fiftieth year of the Sino-Indian War of 1962, the Journal of Defence Studies has put together a special issue that analyses the causes of the conflict as well as lessons for the present. A series of articles were especially commissioned for this issue on Tibet; Forward Policy; Chinese and Indian perspectives on wartime negotiations, and policies and perceptions of each other; parliamentary debates; strategic lessons and effect on defence reforms; and how the war is remembered and perceived in India.

• From the Managing Editor
• Interview with Marshal of the Indian Air Force

Articles

• Tibet as a Factor in Sino-Indian Relations: Past and Present
  — R.S. Kalha
• The Tibetan Uprising and Indian Opinion of the Chinese
  — Bhavna Tripathy
• A Game of Chess and a Battle of Wits: India’s Forward Policy Decision in Late 1961
  — Johan Skog Jensen
• The Great Divide: Chinese and Indian Views on Negotiations,1959-62
  — Oriana Skylar Mastro
• Sino-Indian War, 1962 and the Role of Great Powers
  — S.K. Bhutani
• The Stormy Parliamentary Debates of 1962
  — Rup Narayan Das
• Learning Lessons and Revisting Myths from Kameng
  — P.K. Gautam
• Strategic Lessons of 1962: A Contemporary Retrospective
  — Rahul K. Bhonsle
• Defence Reforms after 1962: Much Ado about Nothing
  — P.R. Chari
• The Legacy of 1962 and China’s India Policy
  — Manjeet S. Pardesi
• Enduring Legacy of 1962: Cementing the Conflict of Perceptions in Sino-Indian Ties
  — Shruti Pandalai
• Remembering 1962 Sino-Indian Border War: Politics of Memory
  — Dibyesh Anand

Book Review Article

• The Rise of China: Implications for India by Harsh V. Pant
  Chinese and Indian Strategic Behavior: Growing Power and Alarm by George J. Gilboy and Eric Heginbotham
  A Resurgent China: South Asian Perspectives by S.D. Muni
  — Srinath Raghavan