Territory tussle

The box, “Manufactured history”  (September 9), extracted from Shyam Saran’s book, How India Sees the World, states that India claimed the territory between the Karakoram and Kunlun ranges in 1958. If one reads the book, India-China Boundary Problem 1846–1947 by AG Noorani, it is evident that from 1840 to 1911, when the Chinese empire collapsed, the British were practically inviting them to come up to the Karakoram, being more worried about the Russians then. 

Noorani makes a profound statement: While that territory might have belonged to the British empire, it was never part of British India. Even Jawaharlal Nehru’s Discovery of