wait
i think you may have misunderstood too
the acre was envisioned & mentioned
if not from 1952
then from the late 1950s at the latest
--- Brendan Whyte <
bwhyte@...> wrote:
>
> >Message: 3
> > Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 10:44:12 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: aletheia kallos <aletheiak@...>
> >Subject: Re: Re: Tin Bigha
> >
> >here is another guess even more in line with arifs
> >
> >since 3bigha is also just another way of saying an
> acre as suggested by
> >the data given here & elsewhere ive seen
> >http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictB.html
> >then the comment made here
> >http://banglapedia.search.com.bd/HT/E_0054.htm
> >that an acre of land was agreed to be set aside for
> this corridor since
> >1952 suggests to me that the parcel may actually
> have acquired its name in
> >theory & principle & that it may actually have
> been in use for many years
> >before it was determined exactly which acre or
> parcel it was to be
> >& that when the actual parcel was finally agreed
> upon & laid out after
> >having for some reason nearly quadrupled in size
> its functional name had
> >already been determined & thus naturally continued
> to be applied even tho
> >no longer literally applicable & my further guess
> is that the reason it
> >nearly quadrupled in size may have been to permit a
> minimum feasible or
> >practicable width for since its 178 meter length
> was already determined
> >by the length of the gap it had to bridge its width
> would have had to
> >shrink from its present 85 meters to less than 23
> meters in order for its
> >3bigha name to still have been true & all the stuff
> shown here might never
> >have fit into so narrow a strip
> >http://exclave.info/tin-bigha/tinbighamap.jpg
>
>
> You misunderstand Prof. Elahi's article. 1952 was
> the date of the first
> proposals for exchange of enclaves.
> It was only post 1971 that the Berubari affair
> having stalled the exchange,
> it was proposed that India keep Berubari, and in
> exchange, Bangladesh keep
> Dahagram Angarpota, and this being the case, that
> India grant access across
> a corridor at/near Tin Bigha (very much a highly
> local name not appearing
> on any one inch or 1:50,000 maps I have seen), so
> that Bangladesh could
> access this enclave it would now keep.
> Whether we can locate where these 3 bighas actually
> were is like trying to
> locate the original 29 Palms in California, and
> wondering whether the
> current city limits include the land on which they
> all stood, or for
> various reasons may not include all the 29 palms
> that once stood there (if
> indeed they ever did), or whether the city has more
> than 29 palms within
> its boundaries.
> Ditto Sevenoaks, Twelvetrees, Threemile Island
> (English miles, or Swedish?)
> etc.
>
> Brendan
>
>
>
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