Mc Mahon line
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Mc Mahon line frontier between Tibet and Assam in British India, negotiated between Tibet and Great Britain at the end of the shimla conference ( October 1913- july 1914) and named for the chief British negotiator, Sir Henry Mc Mahon. It runs from the eastern border of Bhutan along the crest of the Himalayas until it reaches the great bend in the emerges from its Tibetan course into the Assam Valley. Delegrate of the Chinese republication government also attended the shimla conference, but they refused to sign the principal agreement on the status and boundaries of Tibet on the ground that Tibet was subordinate to China and had not the power to make treaties. The Chinese have maintained this position to the present day and also have claimed that Chinese territory extends southward to the base of the Himalayas foot hills. This frontier controversy with independent India let to the sino-Indian hostilities of October November 1962 . In the conflict the Chinese Forces occupied Indian territory south of the Mc Mahon line but subsequently withdrew after a cease fire had been achieved.
In simla accord there is a Mc Mahon line is a line, agreed to by Britain any Tibet in 1914 . The effective boundaries between China and India, although it's legal status is disputed by the government of China. Mc Mahon line is named after sir Henry Mc Mahon, he was foreign secretary of the British run government of India and he was chief negotiator of the convention. It extent for 550 miles from Bhutan in the west to 160 miles east of the great band of the Brahmaputra River inthe east. In 1907 government of Indian rejected simla and 1921 this convention was renouned.
China forces briefly occupied this area during the sino - India War of 1962-63 and named and called Mc Mahon line in the eastern part of its border with India in 1959 diplomatic, by Prime Minister ZHOU ENLAI.
China forces briefly occupied this area during the sino - India War of 1962-63 and named and called Mc Mahon line in the eastern part of its border with India in 1959 diplomatic, by Prime Minister ZHOU ENLAI.
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