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Write a brief analysis of the ethnic conflicts and cross-border migrations along India-Myanmar and India-Bangladesh borders.

  • UPSC 2021
  • 15 marks
  • India and South Asia

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Both frontiers are colonial or Partition lines laid across continuous ethnic landscapes; Willem van Schendel (The Bengal Borderland, 2005) shows how such lines created borderland societies rather than separating peoples. On the 1,643 km Myanmar border kinship drives movement; on the 4,096 km Bangladesh border economy and demography do. Myron Weiner's "sons of the soil"…

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  • India–Myanmar border: kinship, insurgency and civil war
  • India–Bangladesh border: demography and identity
  • Analysis
  • Conclusion
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