evidence: Traversing via maps, Aksai Chin – a land once forgotten due to its ruggedness but cherished as India's crown, found itself under the whammy of an assertive neighbour with no rightful stake. [...] Quoting Bertil Lintner from his book ‘China’s India War’, "The Chinese never recognised the Ardagh-Johnson Line, and in 1892, one of their patrols erected some border markers at the Karakoram Pass, where there was ancient caravan route between Xinjiang and Ladakh. Since then, the Chinese have continued to claim that the greater part of Ladakh’s Aksai Chin region should be inside the territory claimed by them." [...] From 1917 to 1933, the ‘Postal Atlas of China’ showed international boundaries almost identical to the Johnson-Ardagh line in all of its publications, with Aksai Chin within British territory.