DasGupta had served in the Gorkha Rifles regiment for a decade and this is his first book that was published in January 2020.
The book talks about India’s victory over China at Cho La and Nathu La areas alongside the India-China border in Sikkim. Indian and Chinese troops had quarrelled over the question of a fence at Nathu La, the strategic pass in Sikkim. Victory for the Indian troops that year had come five years after the 1962 Indo-China War in which India had lost.
A statement released Wednesday by Juggernaut Books says DasGupta’s narrative delves on how the 1967 battle became the reason why Beijing never waged another war against India. The book consists of extensive interviews with army officers and soldiers who were present during the clashes at Cho La and Nathu La.
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