KBK is an

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graphic

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founded by Kul Bushan Kumar (1928–2003), from whom it got its name. It is considered "the vanguard of

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and

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in India". KBK was founded in the early 1950s, and its founder Kul Bushan Kumar had a postgraduate degree in

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. Kumar noticed that newspapers and journals then often carried inaccurate geographic representations. He is said to have prepared detailed maps during the

India-China War The Sino-Indian War took place between China and India from October to November 1962, as a major flare-up of the Sino-Indian border dispute. There had been a series of violent border skirmishes between the two countries after the 1959 Tibet ...

of 1962, leading editor M. Chalapathi Rau to write that only he "could provide a correct picture of the war".

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