Boundaries and Borderlands: A Century after the 1914 Simla Convention

The Simla Convention of 1914, held between Great Britain, China, and Tibet, demarcated the border between India and Tibet and gave birth to the McMahon Line. This volume critically examines the legacy of the 1914 Convention and explores its relevance in scholarly discourse about the status of Tibet and Sino-Indian relations more than a hundred years later.

The book discusses the significance of the Simla Convention, both in terms of the geopolitics of boundaries as well as the people and th...