Change of Indian maps unilaterally after July 1954 without mutual discussions with the other party-China. Signing Panchsheel agreement with China in 1954 without first settling the borders. Not settling the border-issue with China, and being inflexible about it. This allowed Tibet-India borders to become China-India borders, bringing with them all the associated problems (Blunder#33 above).īlunder-2. Allowing Tibet to be annexed by China, and recognising China’s claim over Tibet. The same are summarised below, followed by coverage of some of them in detail.īlunder-1. Range of blunders by Nehru over a fifteen-year period since independence across domains-External Security, Defence, Foreign Policy, and so on- that led to the disaster that shamed India and the Indians before the world. It was not just one Himalayan blunder, but like the Himalayan range, a Here, we are talking of what India could control, not what China had in mind.
Nehru’s ‘forward policy’ and his failure in settling the borders resulted in India-China war and its consequent human and financial loss, besides loss of face for India and Indians before the international community. Nehru, through his unwise and ill- considered policies, broke that record, though unwillingly. India and China had a record going back thousands of years for never having fought a war between them. Alfred Vagts, ‘The History of Militarism Again and again, military men have seen themselves hurled into war by the ambition, passions and blunders of civilian governments, almost wholly uninformed as to the limits of their military potential and almost recklessly indifferent to the military requirements of the war they let loose.
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