Time is a good healer; this aphorism can be as true in the life and relations of great nations as in the case of ordinary mortals. India and . China, the two largest Asian nations, bound by common rivers and mountains are also the most populous nations of the world foday. The long and winding land borders have destined them to live together. On the other hand, looking from a historic perspective also, the concept of nation is too narrow a definition to describe these civilisational and cultural giants, which originated and prospered since time immemorial and play a very vital role in the world. Therefore, their mutual relations and vibrations cannot be gauged from the narrow perspective of a single issue or a short time frame of events; rather, it has to be seen in the context of more complicated and time-tested civilisational links.
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M.V. Rappai (1999) studied this question.