History of India and Nepal Border

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History of India and Nepal Border

This story begins in the 1800s, around two hundred years ago, When India was under british rule. The britishers were trying to expand towards Nepal which was under a kingdom then-The king of Gorkha.

A battle took place between the britishers and the kingdom of Nepal. Which is called anglo napolese war of 1814. This battle raged for two years until 1816-after which a treaty was signed.

*Treaty of sugauli to decide which ares whould be controlled by the britishers and which areas would be controlled by the kingdom of Nepal.

*According to the treaty of sugauli, Nepal lost it area of Sikkim and Darjeeling. That area was ceded to the britishers and two rivers were made use of to define the kingdom of Nepal.-

* The western boundary of Nepal would be along the meechi river.

*Even today, if you obsesve What the eastern and western bounderies of Nepal and India are then they are defined according to these two rivers. The Nepal India border runs along the rivers.

* The problem arises at the western border of Nepal-If you go along the mahakali river.

Map of India and Nepal Border

*The boundary had been defined by a line in map

*If you observe that this red line runs along the river.

You can see how the entire India-Nepal border has been defined according to this river.

*But the problem arises where the river splits into two, Actually the river comes from two sources. Which source should be chosen to defined the border.

You can see in the map the west side stream is much narrow than east side stream of water. 

*In the maps drawn by the britishers the west river was used to define the border and Nepal got the extra region.

  

**Some years later, the britishers realized that the extra piece of land that they had ceded tp the Nepal kingdom.

*This land held a lot of strategic importance because it would be importance for britishers because it would be useful which trading with china so, some 30-40 years later. In the 1860s, the britishers changed their maps suddenly with a lot of cunning,Almost suddenly, they claimed the eastern river to be the boundary in their maps so, in this map of 1865 the eastern river was used by the britishers as a boundary between british India and the kingdom of Nepal.

*The kingdom of Nepal did not have a problem with this at that time, because it was a small piece of land and it was not much use from the prospective of Nepal.Almost no one lived there, it was extremely difficult terrain.

* So, Nepal through of letting it go as it did not make much of a difference to it. They let the britishers control it.

And the some border continued to be considered even after India became independent.

*After democracy of Nepal the monarchs did not have any issue with this unofficial border.

They kept this area out of Nepal drawing their government maps.

 

DURING INDO-CHINA WAR

In 1969 between Indo-China War. Military post was established by the indian army in this area, with the permission of Nepal. And from indo china war time there is a presence of the indian army in this area and there are established India military posts.

*In 1962 Onwards both India and Nepal have been showing Lipulekh and Kalapani in their maps.

Now, But this time Nepal has shown the Limpiyadhura region in its map.

*In july 2000 the former indian prime minister, Atal Bihari vajpyee ji and nepali prime minister discussed upon to solve this issue the border dispute. They conduct a joint field survey to figure out where the exacOt boundary should be in the kalapani region, But this agreement got clamped in the middle, when India refused to withdraw its army presence from there so, discussion could not continue further. 

* In May 2015, India  and  china signed a trade agreement to use the lipulekh passs as a trade route and this is the point when the India and Nepal relations began to sour.

*And in 2015, the prime minister of Nepal expressed his displeasure over the issue and showed objection. Nepal protested in relation to this against both India and china.

 And now, Nepal release a new map.