PYQ Vault · Paper 2 · India & South Asia — Part 2
Discuss the future prospects of Indo-Nepal relations in the context of the recent publication of new Nepalese map wrongly claiming Indian territory.
How the answer moves
The flow snapshot — the routes in, the body, the counter-view and the routes out.
Flow snapshot — how the answer moves
Intro routes
R! 2020 map as reply to Nov 2019 map + Dharchula-Lipulekh road — written into the constitution — claim placed beyond any one government — prospects = management, not early settlement R2 boundary unsettled since Sugauli 1816 — 2020 map converts an old ambiguity into a fixed national position ~ question becomes where the claim is argued, not who wins it
Body flow
Sugauli 1816, Kali source undefined — both readings arguable > politics turns ambiguity into quarrel — Muni: 2015 coercion builds anti-India nationalism — Dixit: map as Oli’s reply to the blockade — 2026 verdict, Oli defeated — Shah in Parliament: encroachment both ways, experts to examine — Dixit: Limpiyadhura silent in the campaign — dispute moving from platform to table
Counter-view
claim not withdrawn — Lipulekh pilgrimage route still protested — China available as leverage
Conclusion routes
R1 Chellaney: geography leaves no substitute for India → steady, unsentimental ties, negotiation carried by interdependence R2 settlement unlikely soon — success measured by keeping the map inside expert talks and out of election politics
Model answer
Handwritten, in the form it would be written in the examination hall.
