SIT Graduate Institute/SIT Study Abroad SIT Digital Collections Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection SIT Study Abroad Spring 2010 Border Conflict and Tibet: The Asian Giants and Their iH story of Power Struggle Evan Towt SIT Study Abroad Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcollections.sit.edu/isp_collection Part of the Asian Studies Commons, and the Defense and Security Studies Commons Recommended Citation Towt, Evan, "Border Conflict and Tibet: The Asian Giants and Their iH story of Power Struggle" (2010). Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection. 882. https://digitalcollections.sit.edu/isp_collection/882 This Unpublished Paper is brought to you for free and open access by the SIT Study Abroad at SIT Digital Collections. It has been accepted for inclusion in Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection by an authorized administrator of SIT Digital Collections. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Border Conflict and Tibet: The Asian Giants and their History of Power Struggle Towt, Evan Academic Director: Onians, Isabelle Senior Faculty Advisor: Hubert Decleer Franklin and Marshall College Anthropology Asia, India, Himachal Pradesh, McLeod Ganj Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Tibetan/Himalayan Studies, SIT Study Abroad, Spring 2010 “You are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody." -Jean Jacques Rousseau’s Defender of Anarchy A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality 2 Abstract The South Asian world is dominated by India and China, their combined populations equaling almost a full half of humankind. In 1962, the two countries clashed over their border.