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Identify the persistent points of friction between India and Bangladesh at present.

  • UPSC 2007, 1998
  • 20 marks
  • India and South Asia

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India and Bangladesh share a 4,096 km border, 54 rivers, a language and the memory of 1971, yet politics often works against geography. The frictions fall into two groups: structural irritants that have persisted for fifty years, and political ruptures that opened after Sheikh Hasina's fall on 5 August 2024 and the BNP's return under…

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  • Structural frictions
  • Post-2024 frictions
  • Why the frictions persist
  • Conclusion
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