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Neville Maxwell (born 1926 in London) is a retired Australian-British journalist and scholar who authored the 1970 book ''India's China War'', which is considered an authoritative analysis of the 1962 Sino-Indian War. However, he has been criticised for his pessimistic views on Indian democracy. In March 2014, Maxwell leaked the Henderson Brooks–Bhagat Report, which was written by two Indian army officers in 1963 to examine India's defeat in the Sino-Indian War and had been kept top-secret by the Indian government for over 50 years. ==''India's China War''== An Australian born in London, Maxwell was educated at McGill University in Canada and the University of Cambridge in England. He joined ''The Times'' as a foreign correspondent in 1955 and spent three years in the Washington bureau. In 1959 he was posted to New Delhi as the South Asia correspondent. In the next eight years he travelled from Kabul to East Pakistan and Kathmandu to Ceylon, reporting in detail the end of the Nehru era in India and the post-Nehru developments.〔(''India's China War'' )〕 During the 1962 Sino-Indian War, Maxwell wrote for ''The Times'' from New Delhi, and was the only reporter there who did not uncritically accept the official Indian account of events.〔 This eventually led to his "virtual expulsion" from India.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Book review: India's China War )〕 In 1967, Maxwell joined the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London as a senior fellow to write his book ''India's China War''. He was with the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at Oxford University at the time when the book was published in 1970.〔 The book draws extensively from India's top-secret Henderson Brooks–Bhagat Report, which Maxwell obtained a copy of.〔 Due to the lack of available information from China, Maxwell, like other foreign scholars, had to rely on inferences based on official Chinese statements with regards to China's perceptions.〔 He did not attempt to evaluate the accuracy of these perceptions.〔 The book was widely praised across a diverse range of opinions, including British historian A. J. P. Taylor, Chinese premier Zhou Enlai, and US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.〔 On the other hand, Singaporean leader Lee Kuan Yew considered it "revisionist, pro-China history".〔 〕 In India, Maxwell is perceived as hostile to the Indian narrative of victimhood and received ferocious personal attacks.〔 The Indian government charged him with breach of Official Secrets Act, forcing him to stay out of India to avoid arrest, until the charges were annulled by Prime Minister Morarji Desai eight years later.〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Neville Maxwell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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