Therefore, this border is not accepted by both nations as official. This formed what we know as Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK). At that point of time, much (but not all) territory had been recovered from the Pakistani forces. This froze the Line of Control as it was at the time of declaring ceasefire. The problem arose when the Indian leadership gave consent for a controversial ceasefire before the Indian Army could take the entire territory back. After the signing of accession with India, the Indian army started fighting the Pakistani forces and taking back the territory the latter had invaded. The Maharaja of Kashmir signed the accession with India, but Pakistan did not accept this accession and continued invasion. In the meanwhile, Pakistan tried to take over Kashmir and their army started invading the state. It is an Unofficial control line.ġn 1947, during the time of independence, the Maharaja of Kashmir had the option to sign an accession to either India or Pakistan. It is the ceasefire line agreed upon after the Indo – Pak war in 1948. Line of Control (LoC)– Border separating India and Pakistan in Jammu & Kashmir. Therefore, Radcliffe line separates India from Pakistan as well as Bangladesh.Ĥ.So the same Radcliffe line which was a border between India and East Pakistan is now a border between India and Bangladesh. In 1971, East Pakistan separated from its West counterpart and formed a separate country called Bangladesh. Initially Radcliffe line had divided British India into India, West Pakistan (present Pakistan) and East Pakistan (present Bangladesh).It was named after Sir Cyril Radcliffe, the chairman of the Border Commissions in British India. It extends from the Rann of Kutch in Gujarat till the international border in J&K. Radcliffe Line – The border dividing British India into 2 different independent countries – India and Pakistan. This is an issue of contention between India and China.ģ. China does not accept the MacMahon line, claiming that Tibet is not sovereign, therefore any treaty it entered into was invalid. It was named after Sir Henry MacMahon, the then foreign secretary of British Government in India, and the chief negotiator of the Shimla Conference.
MacMahon Line – The border between China and India, which was demarcated in the Shimla Conference 1914 through negotiation between British India and Tibet (which was an independent state then), in which Tibet was broken into Outer and Inner Tibet. Line of Actual Control (LAC) – The Sino-Indian Border in Kashmir, where ceasefire between the Indian and Chinese forces was declared and mutually accepted after the Sino-Indian war of 1962.Ģ.
Nearest points: India - Dhanushkodi in Tamil Nadu Sri Lanka - Talai Mannar in Jaffna.ġ.
India and Sri Lanka share a maritime boundary, and are separated by the Palk Strait. States which share border with Bangladesh - West Bengal, Assam, Tripura, Mizoram, and Meghalaya. Longest land border with India (about 27% of India's total land border). 5 Indian states which share border with China - J&K, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh (about 26% of India's total land border) Indian States which share boundary with Pakistan - Gujarat, Rajasthan, Punjab and J&K (about 22% of India's total land border)Ī very significant length of border sharing. Indian states which share border with Nepal - Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Sikkim Indian states which share border with Myanmar - Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh. Indian States sharing border with Bhutan are West Bengal, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh and Assam. J&K (PoK) shares border with Afghanistan (it forms only about 0.52% of the total land border of India)