McMahon Line

The McMahon Line marks boundary between Chinese-held and Indian-held territory in the eastern Himalayan region. The line was the focus of a brief war in 1962, when Indian and Chinese forces struggled to control a disputed area (shown in red), much of which is a high altitude wasteland.

The McMahon Line is a demarcation line drawn on map referred to in the Simla Convention, a treaty between Britain and Tibet signed in 1914.

Although its legal status is disputed, it is currently the effective boundary between China and India.

This dispute was used a pretext in a war between China and India in 1962.

Related pages

• South Tibet
• Durand Line
• Radcliffe Line

Further reading

• GlobalSecurity.org, India-China Border Dispute
• Kawaguchi, Yuki. "Arunachal Pradesh Territorial Dispute between India and China," Archived 2010-10-01 at the Wayback Machine ICE Case Studies (US). No. 161, November, 2005.

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• Moslem India (Indus Valley Region) – British Bengal Colony (Pre–1947) relations
• Government of British India
• British India – British Burma relations
• British India – Moslem India (Indus Valley Region) relations
• British Indian (Rupee)
• Radcliffe Line
• British India – Commonwealth of Australia relations

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