Borders of Greater India That is Undivided India(Akhand Bharat)

Borders of India That is Undivided India(Akhand Bharat)

Borders of India

India shares borders with several self-governed nations, but almost all these sovereign countries are part of Undivided India, which was known as Akhand Bharat.  Present India shares land borders with China, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar.  In the case of cunning China, China grabbed Indian land in the 1962 war.  China said "Hindi Chini Bhai Bhai" and did war cut Indian troops' phone lines. Bangladesh and Pakistan share both land borders and maritime borders, while Sri Lanka shares only a maritime border. India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia.  Here, previously Bangladesh is called East Pakistan and Myanmar is called Burma.

Borders of India

Land borders of India

Present India shares land borders with seven self-governed countries. The state's Ministry of Home Affairs also recognizes a 106 kilometers (66 mi) land border with an eighth nation called Afghanistan, as part of its claim of the Kashmir region i.e., Durand Line.

Reason Behind Dividing Greater India

The first freedom fight of 1857 against the British rule in India was affected more and the British were frightened.  Following the principle of divide and rule, till 1857, they divide some kingdoms and rulers and ruled India.  But after the 1857 revolution they started to divide Akhand Bharat i.e., Undivided India into number of small nations such as Afghanistan in 1876, Bhutan in 1906, Sri Lanka in 1935, and Pakistan as West Pakistan and East Pakistan in 1947.  Before 1875, Afghanistan, Bhutan, Myanmar, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Tibet were important parts of Undivided India that were Akhand Bharat, and all these states were united and started the revolution against the British Government, and in 1857 first Independent fight against the British Rule was started.  Because of this revolt, the whole British Government in British India frightened and the Britishers came in action by starting their policy of "divide and rule" and they divided Undivided India into a number of pieces.  They started first from Afghanistan and Afghanistan was recognized as an independent country in 1876.

Divya Darshan - Brahat Incarnation of Maa Bharati

Iranian Ethnic Group of Afghanistan

In Afghanistan, Pashtuns or Pathans or generally, according to history known as Afghans are the native people.  These Afghans are the largest Iranian ethnic group and native to Central and South Asia.   The Iranian ethnic group's local language is Pashto, It is an Eastern Iranian language.  Additionally, as a second language, ethnic Pashtuns in Afghanistan speak the Dari dialect of Persian.  Few important minority groups speak Persian or Hindi-Urdu as their first language.  The total number of Pashtuns is estimated to be around 69 million, but this was not the correct figure because there is no proper official census in Afghanistan since 1979.

Durand Line - International Border Between British India and Emirates of Afghanistan 

The British Government, first divided the Undivided India into Afghanistan and India, then afraid by Afghan warrior in the Second Anglo-Afghan War.  Following the Anglo-afghan war again and again, the British Government planned for an International border between British India or 'Greater India' and the Emirate of Afghanistan.  To give Ultimate structure, the Durand Line was established, dated 12th November 1893 as the International border between British India or Greater India and the Emirate of Afghanistan.  This agreement was done between a British diplomat of the Indian Civil Services, called Mortimer Durand and the Afghan Emir, called Abdur Rahman Khan. The main motto was to fix the limit of their respective spheres of influence and improve diplomatic relations, trade, and a common border.

Borders of India - Bangladesh

Bangladesh, previously called East Pakistan, is part of Undivided India also called the Akhand Bharat.  The Akhand Bharat or Undivided India also called Greater India was divided by the British Government during their rule in India, on the policy of "Divide and Rule".  British Government divided greater India into West Pakistan and East Pakistan in 1947 without reason, just because of make difference between Hindus and Muslims.  Actually, Hindus and Muslims together fought the "Freedom Fight" against British Rule in Undivided India.  East Pakistan was an overseas province of Pakistan between 1947 and 1971.  Bangladesh's land borders are with present India and Myanmar, 'previously Myanmar is called Burma', with a coastline on the Bay of Bengal.  Actually, East Pakistanis were popularly known as "Pakistani Bengalis"; because their national language is Bengali and their culture is also Bengali style.  Because of their language, culture, and lifestyle of the new nation is called "Bangladesh".  This new nation, Bangladesh was formed by the help of then Indian Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi.  Indira Gandhi was popularly known as "Maa Durga".   To distinguish this region from India's state of West Bengal, which is also known as "Indian Bengal", like this there are two Bengals, East Bengal, and West Bengal was part of Undivided India or the Greater India and called the Akhand Bharat. 

Pakistan - Irresponsible Leaders and Coup d'état

Under the One-Unit Scheme of Pakistan, then Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mohammad Ali of Bogra, East Pakistan was renamed from East Bengal.  At that time Bengali leaders were dominated in Pakistan.  The Constitution of Pakistan of 1956 replaced the Pakistani monarchy with an Islamic republic.   H. S. Suhrawardy served as the Prime Minister of Pakistan between 1956 and 1957 and he was a Bengali politician.   The first president of Pakistan was also a Bengali bureaucrat called Iskander Mirza.  General Ayub Khan came to power after the 1958 Pakistani coup d'état and Khan launched a crackdown against pro-democracy leaders.  Ayub Khan replaced Iskander Mirza as president of Pakistan and enacted the Constitution of Pakistan of 1962, which ended the universal right to vote in political elections.

Bengali Language Movement and Dissatisfaction of Other Language Speakers in Pakistan

The most disagreeing issue which has become the reason for the division of West Pakistan and East Pakistan was 'the question of what the official language of the new state was to be'.   Language becomes more trouble and prestigious issue in both the states of Pakistan, because there is no right administration and the majority of the people suffered without correct guidelines of a country, Mohammad Ali Jinnah and a few more leaders of then Pakistan don't have any 'common people's welfare plan and no future wellness of the nation'.  To make the satisfaction of few people, Mohammad Ali Jinnah yielded to the demands of refugees from the Indian states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, who insisted that Urdu be Pakistan's official language, because they are Muslims like this M.A. Jinnah always gave importance to the religion and religious people will and wish but not the fact that building the nation.  But in West Pakistan, speakers of the languages, such as Punjabi, Sindhi, Pashtu, and Baluchi were upset that their languages were given second-class status.  Because of this language dissatisfaction and the question of dissatisfied governance they started a revolt and reunification of the state with greater India that is Akhand Bharat or Undivided India. 

In East Pakistan, the dissatisfaction of languages quickly turned to violence because their language is Bengali but not Urdu.  The Bengali Language belongs to the Indo-Aryan language family, here major problem was that the two languages have different scripts and literary traditions.  The Bengalis of East Pakistan constituted a majority of an estimated 54% of Pakistan's total population. 

Pakistan Army Chief - Signing on Surrender Form

Formation of Bangladesh

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who was famous for his democratic thought, in 1966, emerged as the prominent opposition leader in Pakistan and launched the six-point movement for autonomy and democracy.  The 1969 uprising in East Pakistan contributed to Ayub Khan's overthrow.

General, Yahya Khan, usurped the presidency and enacted martial law. in 1970, but finally, Yahya Khan organized Pakistan's first federal general election.  The Awami League under the leadership of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman emerged as the single largest party, followed by the Pakistan Peoples Party.  The military junta stalled in accepting the results, leading to civil disobedience, the Bangladesh Liberation War, and the 1971 Bangladesh genocide.  Bangladesh was formed with the help of India.

Bangladesh is one of the separated self-governed nations from Greater India or Akhand Bharat (Previously it was East Bengal or East Pakistan and now Bangladesh).  The total length of the borders surrounding India is 4,096 kilometers (2,545 mi).  Border Security Force of India is taking care of the security at the border.  And India–Bangladesh enclaves exchanged in 2015.

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