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Book Name;

India Bangladesh border Dispute, History and post-LBA Dynamics.

Author;

Amit Ranjan.

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Border is a line on map that delimits one area or country from the other. This the specific and peculiar characteristic of present nation state system that separate them from one another thus resolving many administrative and territorial problems for them as well as causing tense relations if the two neighbours does not agree over a common undisputed border between them.

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After the end of WWII and with the independence of former colonized states many border disputes and claims on areas and people residing in them arouse out between these new nation states resulting in tense relations and military conflicts.

The same issue pesters the India and Bangladesh relations though India proactively contributed in the 1971 war with Bangladesh.

The 4100 kilometres long border between India and Bangladesh is the fifth longest border of the world. In which Bangladesh shares 2217 kilometres long border with West Bengal, the Indian state.

Thus, more than half of the India-Bangladesh border (IB) is shared with the West Bengal.

If a Bengali nationalist Irrendentism appears in future which New Delhi feared might cause serious problems for it, the Indian government decided to resolve and control its long West Bengal border issue with Bangladesh once for all.

The partition of India in 1947 and the cessation of East Pakistan (Bangladesh) in 1971 from the West Pakistan was a traumatic reminder for Bengalis living in Indian West Bengal and East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) that are separated from each other by a map line.

People accustomed to travel daily to nearby bazaar or city for grocery suddenly became aliens and strangers. Even a mistaken or wrong crossing by anyone on any side may result in arrest or gunfire by security forces. With time this division and alienation between the two sides became deeper and sharper.

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In 2015 Land Border Agreement (LBA) was signed between New Delhi and Dhaka to settle this dispute permanently.

The book analyses whether people migration and mobility on the both sides of border would be resolved by this LBA (2015).

The 6 chapters of this book is good brain dose for anyone to understand the historical background of India Bangladesh border dispute and global phenomena of people migration and mobility.