Colonel NS Malhan, too, said it was time to take a relook at India's Tibet policy. He said China has released a new edition of the standard map, laying claim on Arunachal Pradesh and Aksai Chin ...

Tibet's cartographic history begins with Tibet's map, published by Western countries in the 17th and 18th centuries based on information obtained from Jesuit missionaries and traveller's accounts.

Tibet is an independent State and the proposed map, which is in the planning stage, will have the original names of places occupied and sinicised by the Chinese.