The Clash of Titans: A Look Back at the Sino-Indian War

For Sulmaan Wasif Khan, a professor at Tufts's Fletcher School, Tibet was no isolated corner in the vastness of the Himalaya's. It was a bustling, thriving borderland. There was an absence of central authority with no-one in control as nomadic tribes meandered across grasslands, the monasteries cast their shadows over their immediate neighborhoods and landlords and their serfs were thinly littered across a plateau, where much of their needs were serviced by itinerant traders.