Subject: Tin Bigha redux<br/>
Date: Apr 05, 2005 @ 23:17<br/>
Author: Brendan Whyte (Brendan Whyte &lt;bwhyte@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1869965345">At 11:36 AM 5/04/2005 +0000, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a> wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt;Message: 3<br/>
&gt;    Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 04:38:44 -0700 (PDT)<br/>
&gt;    From: aletheia kallos &lt;<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:aletheiak@...">aletheiak@...</a>&gt;<br/>
&gt;Subject: Re: Tin Bigha redux<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;wait<br/>
&gt;i think you may have misunderstood too<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;the acre was envisioned & mentioned<br/>
&gt;if not from 1952<br/>
&gt;then from the late 1950s at the latest<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>You mean the earliest.<br/>
<br/>
but no, the acre was not even a glint in Nehru&#39;s eye then. The post 1947 <br/>
proposals were always for full exchange of enclaves. This led to problems <br/>
at Berubari. Local Indians there disrupted survey efforts and took the <br/>
matter to court. This delayed exchange, frustrating the Pakis who felt <br/>
India was silently encouraging this local dissent, and not working hard <br/>
enough to speed the matter through the courts.<br/>
This in turn soured relations further, more real or perceived gop-slows, etc.<br/>
After the 1965 war things got worse<br/>
then the 1970 war for East Paki independence as Bangladesh.<br/>
Now India could deal with a new partner, and a new idea was put forward. <br/>
Bangladesh would let India keep Berubari, but in exchange wanted a similar <br/>
area/population. This was obviously found at Dahagram/Angarpota, the <br/>
largest Bangla enclave, 2 entire administrative villages, and so close to <br/>
the main boundary. Thus it was easy to come up with the idea of a corridor <br/>
over such a short uninhabited space to Bangla access to the enclave. The <br/>
proposal was formalised in the 1974 Indira-Mujib talks/pact.<br/>
<br/>
But until the early 70s, there was no official talk of corridors, let alone <br/>
one at Tin Bigha. It is conceivable someone may have thought of corridors, <br/>
but given there are 200 enclaves, the obvious solution was to exchange <br/>
them, not run corridors to each one. It was only the problems at Berubari <br/>
that delayed the exchange indefinitely, that triggered the Bangladeshis to <br/>
offer to let India keep that in exchange for another area in a quid pro quo.<br/>
<br/>
EXCHANGE was discussed 1950 onwards, but corridors, and in particular Tin <br/>
Bigha were only tabled as ideas in the early 1970s with Bangladesh, not <br/>
with Pakistan.<br/>
<br/>
You can read all the gory details in my book... :-)<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
Brendan</div>