ABSTRACT
Literature on the dynamics of Tibet and the Tibetan community is prolific. It has appeared regularly in tandem with the course and verve of the Tibetan cause, and more consistently in keeping with Tibet’s political legacy and complexity as a region in Asia’s history, especially in the India-China historical as well as contemporary context. Most of it has looked at the historical and modern course of Tibet and Tibetan people and has tried to link it to and rationalise it within the continuing realities.1 But most of this literature has ignored Tibet’s geographic context and the Tibetans’ relationship with India and China in the context of identity, ethnicity and state discourse. As the crux of this book is to evaluate the next trajectory of India-China relations, this chapter looks at the emerging complexity between the two countries where both the region of Tibet and Tibetans are an integral part. Tibet as a contemporary subject in India-China bilateral discourse has come of age.
