Neville Maxwell

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Neville Maxwell is a British journalist who is the author of a book on the Sino-Indian War: India's China War. His book has been the subject of discussion in media and is treated by many[citation needed] as a good account of the war, although it differs from the scholarship of some others around the time. It's been labelled by some as biased in that it is Anti-Indian.

In India, Neville Maxwell is known as the author of a series of pessimistic reports filed The Times, London, in February 1967. In the atmosphere leading up to the 4th Lok Sabha elections, he wrote:

The great experiment of developing India within a democratic framework has failed. [Indians will soon vote] in the fourth—and surely last—general election.

A contemporary article in the Guardian (in 1967, also before the same elections) carried no by-line, but mentioned Neville Maxwell in an aside:

the Delhi correspondent of a British newspaper whose thundering misjudgments in foreign affairs have become a byword has expressed the view that Indian democracy is disintegrating.

and goes on to provide a contrarian view[1].

[edit] References

  1. ^ Ramachandra Guha. "Past & Present: Verdicts on India", The Hindu, 2005-07-17. Retrieved on 2007-05-13. 
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