{"id":35656,"date":"2018-11-01T11:16:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T05:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35656"},"modified":"2018-11-01T11:17:06","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T05:47:06","slug":"undoing-the-economic-partition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/undoing-the-economic-partition\/","title":{"rendered":"Undoing the economic partition:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/opinion\/columns\/undoing-the-economic-partition-delhi-poltical-saarc-india-pakistan-independence-day-4798513\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Undoing the economic partition<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: (<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong> Context:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seven decades after Independence, transcending the tragedy of Partition remains the single biggest national challenge for India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Introduction:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The structural religious tension, engendered by Partition has been aggravated by the unending conflict between India and Pakistan, the successor states of the undivided Subcontinent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>India-Pakistan trade:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The political division did not demand that the new states should stop trade and commerce between them or shut down their frontiers or limit people to people contact.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, the borders remained relatively open in the first two decades after Independence.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 1965 war, followed by the 1971 conflict, saw the closing of post Partition frontiers and with it the sundering of coherent economic spaces like the Punjab and Bengal.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The great regional junctions and trading centres like Lahore and Amritsar turned into terminals at closed frontiers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India and Pakistan made it ever harder for movement of goods and people between the two countries.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India\u2019s neighbours tried different ways to cope with India\u2019s deregionalisation.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sri Lanka, in the late 1970s, turned to the ASEAN and the West.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Businessmen in Nepal sought arbitrage between the tariff levels of Delhi and Kathmandu.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The political liberation of Bangladesh in 1971 had little economic consequence, because of \u00a0shared commitment to state socialism between Congress and the Awami League.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India\u2019s new commitment to regional economic integration:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was only after 1991 that India put regionalism back on the policy radar.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India\u2019s new commercial interest in the neighbourhood was very much a consequence of the turn towards globalisation. But it has not been easy to translate India\u2019s new commitment to regional economic integration into effective policies.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Internally the resistance to regionalism in India\u2019s economic ministries remains strong.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In smaller countries like Nepal and Sri Lanka, the politicisation of economic cooperation with India means knee jerk opposition to all projects involving India.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Way ahead:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Overcoming the economic partition of the Subcontinent has become at once urgent and more difficult to achieve.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The problem is not about the lack of ideas or resources. It is about mobilising all of Delhi\u2019s political will to force the pace and raise the intensity of India\u2019s regional economic engagement.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Delhi\u2019s decisions to look beyond SAARC, modernise border infrastructure, promote connectivity, and open up its markets are all important steps forward.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Undoing the economic partition: ( Context: Seven decades after Independence, transcending the tragedy of Partition remains the single biggest national challenge for India. Introduction: The structural religious tension, engendered by Partition has been aggravated by the unending conflict between India and Pakistan, the successor states of the undivided Subcontinent. India-Pakistan trade: \u00a0The political division&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/undoing-the-economic-partition\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Undoing the economic partition:\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704738624},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}