The
Sino-Indian War , also known as the
Sino-Indian Border Conflict , was a war between
China and
India that occurred in 1962. A disputed Himalayan border was the main pretext for war, but other issues played a role. There had been a series of violent border incidents after the
1959 Tibetan uprising, when India had granted asylum to the
Dalai Lama. India initiated a
Forward Policy in which it placed outposts along the border, including several north of the
McMahon Line, the eastern portion of a
Line of Actual Control proclaimed by Chinese Premier
Zhou Enlai in 1959.