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In June last year, the Ministry of Defence announced a new policy on archiving, declassification, compilation and publication of histories of wars and operations carried out by the Indian armed forces.
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Times Face-off: The MoD announcement that war records will be declassified after every 25 years has evoked mixed reactions. Two experts battle it out
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Declassifying files will boost research, acquaint Indians with their war history
On July 9, 1971, US secretary of state Henry Kissinger arrived in Peking for a secret meeting with Chinese premier Zhou Enlai. This was at the height of the Cold War against the Soviet Union, and the US saw an opportunity to entice communist China into its fold. A highlight of Kissinger’s successful visit was a book that Zhou gifted him. It was called ‘India’s China War’ by Neville Maxwell. Impressed, Kissinger told Zhou, “Reading that book showed me I could do business with you people.” A few months later when India and Pakistan went to war, President Richard Nixon and Kissinger’s sympathetic view on China, a Pakistani ally, was influenced by Maxwell’s book which blamed India for the 1962 India-China war.