[1][2] Following the incidents of 1959, the Prime Ministers of India and China met between 19 and 25 April 1960 in New Delhi for the purpose of discussing the boundary question.
[3]The research for the Indian side for the Officials talks were done under S Gopal, the Head of the Historical Division of the Ministry of External Affairs.
[7] In another review in 1961, G. F. Hudson writes that "this publication is indispensable for anyone taking a serious interest in the subject; its only defect is in the inadequacy of the maps provided, for a matter of controversy which is so essentially geographical cannot be properly understood without plentiful cartography.
The Indian side distorts the facts, creates side-issues and broadens the controversy... India adopts an attitude of imposing its will on others, thus making the Boundary Question more difficult and complicated".
[9] Jagat Mehta would go on to say that the "credit for refining the punchline of (the) conclusion goes to Gopal" — "The facts therefore demand respect for this boundary, defined by nature, confirmed by history and sanctified by "the laws of nations".