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.
Route 1 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
Route 2 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
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
claim not withdrawn → Lipulekh pilgrimage route still protested → China available as leverage
Route 1 Chellaney: geography leaves no substitute for India → steady, unsentimental ties, negotiation carried by interdependence
Route 2 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.
Also asked on this head
India and South Asia — 21 questions in the Vault.
- Discuss the future of SAARC in the light of India’s increased focus on other regional groupings like ASEAN and BIMSTEC.
- Discuss the significance of “West Asia Quad” in the light of India’s “Look West’ policy.
- Why do ethnic conflicts and insurgencies continue to remain major impediments to regional co-operation in South Asia?
How this is taught
The same flow snapshot, built for every head of the syllabus, with the answer written in class.
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