Jason Cons. Sensitive Space: Fragmented Territory at the India-Bangladesh Border

The long border of the former British Empire in India is fraught with conflictive issues. While Kashmir regularly attracts the world’s scrutiny on the border between India and Pakistan (erstwhile West Pakistan), the India-Bangladesh border (formerly East Pakistan) appears in contrast as free from any open conflict. Yet over the years it increasingly proved a problematic issue (Berthet 2016). The border hastily delineated by the Radcliff line in the months of June and July 1947 singled out 166..