Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t71.6

v2.c15.s2.t71.6

She analysed the India-China border question from the overall political understanding of the problem in a historical perspective; her famous distinction between border, boundary and frontier contributed a great deal of clarity to the understanding of the ‘line of actual control’ between India and China. She was the author of numerous scholarly papers, and of a book, *‘China, the World and India’* (2002); in 2005, along with Manoranjan Mohanty, she co-edited the volume *‘Security and Science in China and India: Selected Essays of Giri Deshingkar’*.