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Give an account of the major contending issues in Indo-Bangladesh relations. Assess the prospects for greater cooperation between the two countries.

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  • India and South Asia

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The relationship is a textbook case of asymmetry in Brantly Womack's sense (2006): India, over twenty times Bangladesh's area, gives the relationship far less attention than Bangladesh must, so Delhi's help can read as intrusion and its inattention as disdain. Set at the low point of the BNP–Jamaat years, the question is topical again under…

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  • The contending issues
  • Prospects: the case for optimism
  • Prospects: the constraints
  • Assessment
  • Conclusion
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