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China’s growing footprint and a tangible shift in power dynamics in Bangladesh has weakened India’s leverage in Dhaka. Comment.

  • UPSC 2025
  • 10 marks
  • India and South Asia

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From 2009 to 2024 India enjoyed its closest phase with Bangladesh: transit, power trade, the 2015 land boundary settlement and the dismantling of insurgent camps. The fall of Sheikh Hasina on 5 August 2024 ended it. The statement is largely correct, but India lost leverage built on one party, not leverage built on geography.

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