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Boundary separates one sovereign territory from the other. It is being protected from trespassing by any individual or a group from the other side of the line. To do so almost all states of the world maintain armed guards, and use modern technologies. Moreover, to protect it from violation, many countries have fenced their borders with barbed wire. In some countries like India, a debate is ongoing to seal the border with Bangladesh. Not only in postcolonial countries even the advocate of a globalized ‘borderless world’ are arguing for such possibilities. For example, since Donald Trump has taken over as the President of the United States of America in January 2017, a debate started on the need to fence its border with Mexico from where, allegedly, a large number of immigrants get into the country. Besides, constructing such structures to maintain the sovereign character of the border, the guards do not even shy away or give a second thought to fire at anyone trying to trespass into the other side of the line.
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Gupta [1].
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Ibid.
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See Ranjan [2].
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Gait [3].
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Ibid.
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Zaheer [4].
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‘Assam publishes first draft of NRC with 1.9 crore names’, The Times of India, 1 January 2018. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/guwahati/assam-publishes-first-draft-of-nrc-with-1-9-crore-names/articleshow/62322518.cms. Accessed on 19 May 2018.
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Ibid.
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According to Robert Stewart-Ingersoll and Derick Frazier, the definition of regional custodianship constitutes: (1) It is focussed specifically upon securitized issues or actors that are internal to the region. (2) Custodianship is focussed upon temporarily proximate threats. (3) The custodian plays a critical function in the identification and prioritization of destabilizing elements within the region to include those issues and actors that have the potential to destabilize the security order itself. (4) The custodian will be a primary provider of resources and/or expertise in the management of those issues and actors that it has identified and prioritized as security threats. (5) The building of coalitions and the mobilization of institutional resources and mechanisms that are available within the status quo regional security order are likely to be driven by the regional custodian. (6) In cases in which the security threat is perceived to the emergency the custodian will play a significant role in the direct deterrence of the threat. It need not wait for the problem to manifest itself in order to play the role of custodianship. (7) Finally, the custodian may directly intervene into situations and actively attempt to manage and reduce their intensity and level of threat. It involves much more assertive and participatory function in the activity of security management. Ingersoll and Derrick [5].
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In 2003 after a debate in the Parliament, the government of India rejected the USA’s request to send its troops to fight in Afghanistan. However, India has provided economic aid and engaged into construction activities in Afghanistan.
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Migration from Bangladesh: Need, Impulses and Exploitation The Roundtable: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs (Routledge, London) Volume 105 Issue 3, June 2016 pp. 311–319. Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971: Narratives, Impacts and the Actors India Quarterly (Sage, New Delhi) Volume 72 Issue 2, June 2016 pp. 132–145. India–China Border Disputes: An Overview Asian Affairs (Royal Society for Asian Affairs, London, Routledge) Volume 47 Issue 1, 2016 pp. 101–114. India–Bangladesh Land Boundary Agreement: Disputes (not) over yet? Journal of Asia Pacific Law Review, Department of Law and Human Rights, University of Asia Pacific, Dhaka Volume 1 Issue 1 August 2015 pp. 71–84. Radicalism in Bangladesh: Causes, Concerns and Consequences Himalayan and Central Asian Studies Journal Volume 19 Number (1–2) January–July 2015 pp. 87–99. Migrants, Debates, Conflicts: Can the LBA Address Them? In Nawal K Paswan (edited) India’s Northeast and Beyond: Challenges and Opportunities (2017) Akansha Publishers: New Delhi, pp. 13–23. Besides them a few commentaries the author has written for Institute of South Asian Studies, and ICWA, respectively, on this theme.
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Ranjan, A. (2018). Introduction. In: India–Bangladesh Border Disputes. South Asia Economic and Policy Studies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8384-6_1
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