In his recent Book Negotiating Indias Landmark Agreements author AS Bhasin identifies five seminal Indian bilateral agreements viz., (i) India-China Agreement on Tibet (1954), (ii) Indo-Soviet Treaty of Peace, Friendship and Cooperation (1971), (iii) Th Shimla Agreement (1972), (iv) India - Sri Lanka Accord (1987) and (V) India-United States Civil Nuclear Energy Agreement (2008) for scrutiny.