India-Nepal Peace and Friendship treaty (1950): Does it require revision?

Strategic Analysis

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 579-593

  Nayak, Nihar ^a  

^a IDSA ^*  (United States)

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EID: 79960043290     PISSN: 09700161     EISSN: 17540054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09700161003802778     Document Type: Review

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2. The manifesto also promised to bring necessary changes in managing and controlling the Nepal-India border, initiation to conclude encroachment of Nepali land at the India border, the end of Gorkha recruitment centre, etc.
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4. 'India Ready to Renegotiate 1950 Treaty with Nepal', at http://www.oneindia.in, May 6, 2008 (Accessed December 27, 2008).
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11. Ibid., p. 49.
12. C.P. Gajurel, 'No Special Relation between Nepal and India', The Telegraph Nepal, December 25, 2008, at http://www.telegraphnepal.com/news_det.php.Mr. Gajurel is a CPI-Maoist centralcommittee member.
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14. C.P. Gajurel, no. 11.
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18. Prashant Jha makes a detailed analysis of Indian reservations on the 1950 treaty in his article, 'Revisiting 1950', Nepali Times, Kathmandu, March 5, 2010.
19. Buddhi Narayan Shrestha, no. 14.At http://www.darjeelingtimes.com/news/News/Siliguri-intellectuals-for-demand-abrogationof-Indo-Nepal-treat.html.
20. The Maoists have raised the issue of Greater Nepal in recent years. They have even floated a map of Greater Nepal which included the Indian towns of Varanasi, Ballia, Bahraich, Pilibhit and Jaunpur, mostly in the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh. They have brought about a book called Nepal: Teesta Dekhi Satlej Samma [Nepal: From Teesta to the Sutlej] and published calendars featuring the map of Greater Nepal (in 2005). However, Maoist leader Prachanda has called it a 'media stunt'.
21. Sangeeta Thapliyal, no. 9, p. 14.
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23. Ibid., p. 169.
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25. Reported in The Himalayan Times, March 15, 2010.
26. S.D. Muni, Nepal: An Assertive Monarchy, no. 8, p. 134.
27. Prakash A. Raj, 'Indo-Nepal Relations - Future Prospects', Institute of Foreign Affairs, Kathmandu, at http://www.ifa.org.np/pdf/prc/prakasharaj.pdf.
28. Trade treaties: 1950, 1954, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1964, 1966, 1971, 1973, 1976, 1978 (3), 1985, 1987, 1990, 1991 (3), 1996, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2007 and 2009. There have been several treaties in other areas as well, i.e., peace treaties: 1950, 1953, 1954; treaties on sharing of water resources: 1958, 1987; Mahakali Treaty (1996).
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30. Mr. Kansakar and Head of Central Department of Geography, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu.
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41. S.D. Muni, India and Nepal, no. 15, p. 3.
42. Ibid., p. 54.
43. C.P. Gajurel, no. 11.
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