1. This examines the legacy of the 1914 Simla Conference and its outcome on India-China relations and the Trans-Himalayan region with its different dimensions -- India-Tibet, China-Tibet and India-China. 2. It explores the debilitating consequences of the nation-state boundaries framework on more substantial investigations of the borderlands and the effect of the colonial legacy continuing to cast its long shadow on the geostrategic and geopolitical dynamics of Asia, on Sino-Indian relations and on the aspirations of Tibet to be a genuinely autonomous actor.. 3. This will have interested readers and students in the departments of History, Political Science, International Relations, Sociology, Defence and Strategic studies, as well as Anthropology in the UK and USA.