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India is involved in a number of border disputes. Explain the reasons and remedies.

  • UPSC 2014
  • Political Aspects

Stephen Barr Jones decomposed boundary-making into four sequential operations — allocation (deciding which state gets which territory), delimitation (writing that decision as a described line), demarcation (fixing it on the ground with pillars) and administration (managing the line thereafter). India's disputes are not random: each traces to a specific stage that was skipped, rushed or…

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  • The diagnostic frame — every dispute is a failure at a nameable stage
  • Reasons — stage by stage
  • Allocation failures — political haste
  • Delimitation failures — cartography without survey
  • Demarcation failures — the pillar that cannot be planted
  • Administration failures — the dispute as a resource
  • …and 2 more sections, with a conclusion

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