Disputed Rivers: Sovereignty, Territory and State-Making in South Asia, 1948–1951

Haines, Daniel

doi:10.1080/14650045.2014.896796

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“…[hereinafter the -Kishenganga Partial Award‖]. 20 Haines (2014) at 640. 21 Article III (2) of the IWT; Uprety and Salman (2011) at p. 643.…”

Section: India and Bangladeshmentioning

confidence: 99%

Building Peace over Water in South Asia: The Watercourses Convention and SAARC

Pratap¹

2017

AJL

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The lack of a desirable normative framework for transboundary water sharing adds to the problem of water sharing for the existence in South Asia of the two declared nuclear weapon states of India and Pakistan as water remains one of the key unresolved problems between these two South Asian countries. Although the South Asian region is not without water sharing arrangements, including treaties, we do not really have principles of water sharing. The paper therefore suggests that the South Asian country members of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) become parties to the 1997 Watercourses Convention with any appropriate reservations and/or declarations and establish a SAARC cooperation mechanism for a necessary effectuation and institutional monitoring of equity, reasonableness, flexibility and adaptation in the South Asian water sharing.

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“…[hereinafter the -Kishenganga Partial Award‖]. 20 Haines (2014) at 640. 21 Article III (2) of the IWT; Uprety and Salman (2011) at p. 643.…”

Section: India and Bangladeshmentioning

confidence: 99%

Building Peace over Water in South Asia: The Watercourses Convention and SAARC

Pratap¹

2017

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“…‘I think it only right to express the hope’, he wrote in his final report to the Viceroy on his boundary award, that where the drawing of a boundary line cannot avoid disrupting such unitary services as canal irrigation, railways, and electric power transmission, a solution may be found by agreement between the two states for some joint control of what has hitherto been a valuable common service. (Cited in Haines, 2014, p. 640)…”

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“…According to guidelines of the arrangement, Pakistan had to cancel its claim in regard to the ownership of the canal, in return East Punjab assured that the water supply would continue for a specific period (ibid.). Also Pakistan had agreed to pay seigniorage charges to India for supply of water from East Punjab (Haines, 2014). But soon after the arrangement was reached at, it faced trouble: It could not be recognized and registered as an international agreement between two sovereign countries.…”

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Disputed Waters: India, Pakistan and the Transboundary Rivers

Ranjan¹

2016

Studies in Indian Politics

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Water disputes between India and Pakistan reflect the political relationship between the two countries since partition of British India in 1947. That partition broke the interdependent hydraulic system. In following decades, tensions between India and Pakistan have led to emergence of ‘water nationalism’ in both countries. In the past, many groups, in both countries, have made appeals to their respective government to scrap the Indus Water Treaty (IWT) of 1960, but no steps were taken in such direction by either of the two states. The IWT has survived two full wars (1965 and 1971), one limited war (1999) and a series of political-cum-military tensions (1987, 1989–90, 2002 and 2008) between India and Pakistan.

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“…Under the May 1948 arrangements, Pakistan had given up its claim over ownership of the 1 3 river in return for water supply to its Punjab province from India for a specific period. Also, Pakistan agreed to pay seigniorage charges to India for supply of water from East Punjab (Haines 2014(Haines , 2017Ranjan 2021).…”

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Rivers and canals as “other factors” in the partition of India

Ranjan

2021

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The demand to partition British India was mainly made on the basis of Hindu-Muslim "differences". However, at the time of drawing boundary line, the Boundary Commission (BC) for Bengal and Punjab also considered "other factors". In fact, some of the decisions of the BC were highly influenced by the "other factors." This paper examines how the other factors,' mainly canals, rivers, and irrigation systems, influenced Radcliffe's decisions to demarcate the boundary between India and Pakistan. It looks at some of the debates on Radcliffe's decisions regarding the territory and analyses the bearing of such decisions on the water disputes between India-Pakistan, and India-Bangladesh.

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Disputed Rivers: Sovereignty, Territory and State-Making in South Asia, 1948–1951

Cited by 9 publications

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Building Peace over Water in South Asia: The Watercourses Convention and SAARC

Building Peace over Water in South Asia: The Watercourses Convention and SAARC

Disputed Waters: India, Pakistan and the Transboundary Rivers

Rivers and canals as “other factors” in the partition of India

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