Map of Xinjiang/Sinkiang/East Turkestan 1967: Could this be the best available in the public domain?

June 8, 2009 — drsubrotoroy

Sinkiang1967

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Map of Kashmir to Sinkiang 1944

June 8, 2008 — drsubrotoroy

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Map of Sinkiang, Tibet and Neighbours 1944

June 7, 2008 — drsubrotoroy

The same map is shown here in four parts:


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Serendipity and the China-Tibet-India border problem

June 6, 2008 — drsubrotoroy

Our carpenter completed some new book-cases and this led to our library being churned around a little. I found KPS Menon’s 1947 Delhi-Chungking: A Travel Diary about his 125-day 1944 journey from Delhi through Kashmir and Sinkiang/Xinjiang and “the 8th War Zone” to Chiang Kaishek’s capital at the time, Chung King/Chongqing. I had not read the book properly in decades. Looking at the contents, I found it said there were maps in the inside jacket — something I had never noticed before. Now I found the inner-jacket, put my hand in, and out came two Survey of India maps of Northern India (Kashmir, Baltistan), Sinkiang, China, Tibet….

I shall scan and upload them here within a day or so. It is clear that as of 1947 at least, China and Tibet were distinct on a map.

Subroto Roy

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