1. The colonial legacy of India‐Nepal borderland disputes.
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COLONIES , *HISTORY of cartography , *BORDERLANDS , *GEOPOLITICS ,HISTORY of India - Abstract
This is not a history of cartography but focuses on the interlinkages between British rulers and decisions for shaping inadvertent borderlands, through imperial supremacy and spatial knowledge. In this sense, the paper fills in a gap in the geographical history of India's unique borderland that holds a useful key to "cultural" and "geopolitical understandings" of south Asia and its impressions on modern Indo‐Nepal ties. The theme of the study is to analyze the chronological decisions and rationale of "historical faults" in the implementation by a colonial power in marshalling all available resources in surveying, mapping, and demarcating India's only open border as the ever‐shifting "turbulent frontier" that attracted imperial concern for peace and stability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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