{"id":8240,"date":"2020-05-27T16:37:27","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T11:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=8240"},"modified":"2023-04-10T15:30:48","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T10:00:48","slug":"india-nepal-border-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/india-nepal-border-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"India Nepal Border Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"
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India Nepal Border Dispute<\/h1>\n
Relevance: Mains: G.S paper II: International<\/strong><\/span>\"New<\/p>\n

Why in news?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<\/section>\n

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\u2022 The Indian continent is sweltering and it is not the summer heat. Amid Covid-19 pandemic India-Nepal border dispute has rose to a new height.
\n\u2022 Ever since India inaugurated a new motorable link road that makes connectivity to china border and which passes through Lipulekh Pass that Nepal claims as its own territory.<\/p>\n

Importance of the route:<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u2022 The revamp of the trekking route to a motorable road is a boon to both pilgrims and traders.
\n\u2022 At present, the travel time to Kailash Man Sarovar takes around two to three weeks through Sikkim or Nepal routes.
\n\u2022 Lipulekh route had a trek of 90 Km through high altitude terrain and the Old Pilgrim faced lot of difficulties.
\n\u2022 Now, this yatra will get completed by vehicles.
\n\u2022 Additionally, this road follows the traditional pilgrim route for the Kailash Man Sarovar yatra.
\n\u2022 The newly constructed Lipulekh Pass links Uttarakhand with China\u2019s Tibetan Autonomous Region.
\n\u2022 The pass is near the tri-junction of India, Nepal and China.<\/p>\n

Historical Background:<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u2022 This territorial battle between the two neighboring countries has been brewing since ages.
\n\u2022 The bone of contention is the Kalapani-Limpiadhura-Lipulekh trijunction between Nepal-India and China (Tibet). Located on the banks of the river Kali at an altitude of 3600m, the Kalapani territory lies at the eastern border of Uttarakhand in India and Nepal\u2019s Sudurpashchim Pradesh in the West.<\/strong>
\n\u2022 India claims the area is part of Uttarakhand\u2019s Pithoragarh district, while Nepal believes it to be part of its Dharchula district.
\n\u2022 While the territory is of strategic importance to India and Nepal, the issue is complicated by the contest over the historicity of cartographic evidence that both sides claim to be most accurate. The issue in itself goes back to the early 19th century, when the British ruled India and Nepal was a conglomeration of small kingdoms under the reign of King Prithvi Narayan Shah.
\n\u2022 By the second decade the British East India Company (EIC) established a strong hold of position in Indian Continent. By the early 19th century the EIC started expanding its territory and finally on 1st November 1814 EIC declared war on Nepal.<\/strong>
\n\u2022 The war went on for 2 years and finally it came to an end by signing off the Sugauli Treaty
\n\u2022 The Sugauli Treaty stated that Nepal ceded to British the whole of the lowlands between the Rivers Kali and Rapti.
\n\u2022 The Survey of India maps since the 1870s showed the area of Lipu Lekh down to Kalapani as part of British India.
\n\u2022 Both the Rana rulers of Nepal and the Nepalese Kings accepted the boundary and did not raise any objection with the government of India after India\u2019s Independence<\/p>\n

Recent developments and conflicts:<\/h3>\n

\u2022 Nepal has repugn that Mahakali river at Kalapani is not the Kali river. Further Nepal now postulated that the Kali river lies further west to the Lipu Lekh pass and claims both Kalapani & Susta belong to Nepal
\n\u2022 Nepal has deployed its armed forces and released new map claiming disputed area to be a part of Nepal\u2019s territory. However, this move by Nepal has drawn a sharp criticism from India rejecting the map and has asked Nepal to refrain from taking such<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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