Sources

This chronology was constructed using information from the following sources:

1. Newspapers:
   
   1. Renmin ribao (The People’s Daily) 人民日報
      
   2. Guangming ribao 光明日報
      
   3. The Times of India
      
   
   The newspaper searches were conducted using the India-China Friendship Association (ICFA; 印中友好協會) and the China-India Friendship Association (CIFA; 中印友好協會) as principal key words.


2. Contemporary Scholarship:
   To the newspaper results, we added information contained in contemporary secondary scholarship that focused on Sino-Indian encounters. Two prominent examples of such scholarship are:
   1. Margaret W. Fisher and Joan V. Bondurant. 1956. “Review Article: The Impact of Communist China on Visitors from India.” Far Eastern Quarterly 15(2):249–65.
   2. Herbert Passin. 1961. “Sino-Indian Cultural Relations.” China Quarterly 7:85–100.


3. Archives and Library Collections:
   Finally, we added information collected from a range of archives and libraries over the course the past several years. These include:
   • Beijing Municipal Archives, Beijing
   • Institute For the History of Natural Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
   • Foreign Ministry Archives, Beijing
   • Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi
   • National Archives of India, New Delhi
   • National Library of China, Beijing
   • National Library of India, Kolkata
   • Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi
   • PC Mahalanobis Memorial Museum and Archives, Kolkata
   • Shripati Chandrasekhar Papers, Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections, the University of Toledo, Ohio
   • Tagore library, university of Lucknow, Lucknow
   • Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Archives, Mumbai

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