An Obscure Flashpoint

Today’s NtHWS Extras installment will have some modern flavor, as we look at one of the planet’s most obscure—and potentially most lethal—territorial disputes: The Sino-Indian tussle over Arunachal Pradesh, where a fair chunk of Now the Hell Will Start is set.

The enormous Arunachal is arguably India’s most remote province, populated largely by tribal groups with historical roots in Tibet and Western China. During the Sino-Indian War of 1962, China occupied the province before unilaterally pullin