Arpi comes up with an explosive revelation that nehru’s india supplied rice for the invading pla troops in tibet in the early 1950s the chinese invasion of tibet which culminated in the 1962 war between india and china has often been portrayed as the “great chinese betrayal”—“a stab in the back” as jawaharlal nehru would say with much pain and anguish claude arpi in his 2017 book tibet the last months of a free nation proved with fresh shreds of evidence that the notion of “betrayal” was a farce it was “a stab from the front” as m j akbar observed in his eloquent biography on nehru for the then prime minister and his comrades refused to see the writing on the wall for more than a decade