It's midnight and there are fists pounding on the door. Authoritative voices shouting, "We're coming in Get on the floor " A few terrorized minutes later a family member is dragged out by armed men, disappearing into the night. This scenario is the greatest fear of many twentieth-century families--and to the unlucky, it's a lived reality. For the ethnic Chinese who had been settled in Northern India for many years, 1962 was filled with moments of terror like these.
After the Sino-Indian Border War broke out in 1962, on the authorization of Prime Minister Nehru more than two thousand...