Arunachal Pradesh

The name "Arunachal Pradesh" literally means the "province of the dawn-lit mountains" in Hindi. The state was known as the North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA) from 1914 to 1987, and the traditional pidgin spoken there is still called "Nefamese". Arunachal Pradesh was part of Tibet until 1914, when a treaty between the British government and the Tibetan government brought the Himalayan region under British control as part of British India. However, China considered the Tibetan government to be a local government that had no power to sign treaties with another sovereign state. As a result, China refused to recognise the treaty, and continues to claim the region as part of Tibet. The only modern book written about travelling through this state is Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent's Land of the Dawn-Lit Mountains from 2017. This book is well worth reading for anyone interested in visiting.