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Analyze the impact of hydropolitics on Indo-Bangladesh relations.

  • UPSC 2020
  • 10 marks
  • India and South Asia

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Hydropolitics is water turned into a question of power, identity and bargaining. Between India and Bangladesh it starts from geography: of 54 shared rivers, India is the upper riparian on every one, while Bangladesh's dry-season farming, its defence against salinity and the Sundarbans depend on decisions taken upstream. Water has shaped the relationship more than…

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  • Farakka: grievance as foreign policy
  • 1996: water as an anchor of goodwill
  • Teesta: the credibility deficit
  • Mechanisms of impact
  • Conclusion
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