Launch of the volume: Across the Himalayan Gap: A Chinese Quest for Understanding India

(IIC-Asia Project and Konarak Publishers Pvt. Ltd)

Edited by Prof. Tan Chung, Dr. Zhang Minqiu and Prof. Ravni Thakur

Chief Guest: Shri Jairam Ramesh, Minister for Rural Development

Speakers: Shri T.C. A. Rangachari, former Indian Ambassador to China; Shri Nalin Surie, former Indian Ambassador to China; and Prof. Ravni Thakur, Professor of China Studies, Academy of International Studies, JMI

Chair: Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, Chairperson, IIC-Asia Project

A sequel to the earlier volume "˜Across the Himalayan Gap I: An Indian Quest for Understanding China' edited by Prof. Tan Chung. The present volume introduces to the Indian public the work of Chinese intellectuals on India. It is translated from a Chinese book edited by Prof. Zhang Minqiu, India specialist now retired from the Beijing University