Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Indian mess - French to blame?
Date: Apr 26, 2001 @ 03:18
Author: Arif Samad (Arif Samad <fHoiberg@...>)
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Since I started the virtual enclave debate, I feel I
should say something. I never actually included the
Vatican enclaves as true virtual enclaves, as I am not
sure what the Italian position on the areas is.
However, I generally like to include odd cases like
Walled City or Vatican enclaves as enclave with an
asterisk compared to true virtual enclaves like the
Ecuadorian Cemetery, the Russian memorial etc which
are obviously owned by one country and governed by
another.
Thank you for the basel online maps. Though I saw
that map site earlier, I was not able to save the map
of the area. I did e-mail a map of the Basel tripoint
area from swissgeo though. I am thinking of asking
you guys to e-mail me a few other maps that I am not
able to save. Also thank you for finding the Cyprus
map site.
The garden near Chandernagore Brendan mentions is
Goretty. There were many other supposedly French
gardens and territories until Indian independence, but
Goretty is the only one that survived as Fully French
due to its association with Chandernagore. The garden
seems to survive in the municipal level as part of
Chandannagore; at least it did until 1971 from when I
have the map. However, the map is so unclear that I
might be seeing a totally different line as a
boundary.
Some other oddities of former French India is the
existence of many tiny enclaves in Karaikal, an
enclave within an enclave near Pondicherry and a joint
area, also near Pondicherry. The Pondicherry handbook
mentions that the area was divided between england and
France as parcels, though it does not mention whether
the division was over sovereignty or ownership.
The only non-colonial Indian enclaves I have been able
to find, besides what Brendan mentions, is two West
Bengal-Assam enclaves, one on each side.
I am going to end with a question. Does anybody have
an idea why it is so normal to have divided islands in
Scandinavia, but nowhere else.
Arif

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