Subject: Cooch Behar<br/>
Date: Jun 18, 2001 @ 02:26<br/>
Author: Brendan Whyte (&quot;Brendan Whyte&quot; &lt;brwhyte@hotmail.com&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-227340223">This scan is the sketch map of enclaves along the India-Bangladesh boundary <br/>
from an article by R.Banerjee, the Commissioner of the Presidency division <br/>
of West Bengal (that is the officer in charge of the districts east of the <br/>
Hoogly river, including those in the north of West Bengal, the other <br/>
division of WB was Burdwan division, being the districts west of the <br/>
Hoogly). Appendix II, An account of enclaves - origin and development&quot;, <br/>
pp128-131 of  B.Ray (1966), &quot;Census 1961, West Bengal, District Census <br/>
Handbook, Cooch Behar&quot;, Government Printing/ANU Press, Calcutta.<br/>
After p131 there is a 2 page (4 side) insert, unpaginated, glued in. The <br/>
inner sides of this have the map as shown, and the outer two sides have <br/>
lists of the enclave villages corresponding to the numbering on the map, <br/>
giving enclave names, areas in acres, and the police station to which they <br/>
belong, and in which they are located.<br/>
<br/>
Note that some enclaves are divided into a number of numbered pieces, each <br/>
being a listed village.<br/>
No number, however, correesponds to more than one fragment/enclave/piece.<br/>
Angarpota and dahagran are green numbers 27/28, and are now connected to the <br/>
Bangladesh peninsula to their immediate east by an 85m long fenced corridor <br/>
called Tin Bigha, Indian owned byut leased to Bangladesh for 999years. This <br/>
is now open for Bangladesh transit from 6:30am to 7:30pm or so, with 2 1hour <br/>
breaks. It used to be open alternate hours only, until 5 April 2001.<br/>
<br/>
All the other enclaves are due to be swapped by a 1974 treaty ratified by <br/>
Bangladesh in 1974, but not yet by India. The enclaves on the boundary <br/>
itself(esp. pink #8&9), are now part of Jalpaiguri district, having been <br/>
transferred to Jalpaiguri fomr Cooch Behar in the 1950s.<br/>
<br/>
Note the enclave of Cooch Behar in Assam on the east. There are also three <br/>
much smaller Assam enclaves in cooch Behar to the south of this.<br/>
They do not appear to have been exchanged to date.<br/>
<br/>
BW<br/>
<br/>
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