The Chinese began constructing roads from Tibet leading to Aksai Chin near Ladakh. India did not protest the attack owing to Nehru's China-friendly policy. Expectedly, the Chinese attacked Tibet in 1950 and captured it. They had therefore cultivated Tibet as a buffer state. The British, he says, had insight into China's imperial ambitions. Dalvi also examines the position of Tibet vis-a-vis India and China. Dalvi remembers that he was very angry with the gentleman questioning the authority of the gentleman to criticise the leader of his country.īrig. He narrates an incident where a guest faculty, a retired British official, after hearing that Nehru had signed Panchsheel agreement with China in April 1954 and had decided to give up the post in Tibet that the British had maintained in Tibet to check Chinese advance, interrupted his class and warned that India and China would soon be at war and people in this class would be fighting it. The book begins with the narration of Brig. īecause of the book, the term "Himalayan blunder" came to be used as a synonym for colossal failure in the context of Indian politics. The book was banned by the Indian Government after its publication. : 469īrigadier Dalvi served in the Indian Army and gives a first-person account of the war. The title seems to allude to the "Himalayan miscalculation" that Gandhi discusses in his autobiographical article for 14 April 1919, and which retained this title as Chapter 33 in Gandhi's autobiography. It dealt with the causes, consequences and aftermath of the Sino-Indian War of 1962, that ended in Chinese People's Liberation Army inflicting a defeat on India. Himalayan Blunder was an extremely controversial war memoir penned by Brigadier John Dalvi.
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