Doklam is not India's territory, and India's best option is to pull its troops back, said an Indian scholar Manoj Joshi, a member of a New Delhi-based think tank, during an interview with Indian online publication The Wire.

Joshi said the alignment of the China-India border in the Sikkim area is mutually defined by the Anglo-Chinese Convention of 1890, according to which the Doklam Plateau is Chinese territory.

He suggested that the two countries deal with the current crisis politically and bring the situation back to the point before the standoff began.