India's Approach to Border Management

From Barriers to Bridges

Pushpita Das

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English

Routledge
29 December 2022

Peace studies & conflict resolution; Geopolitics; Warfare & defence; Regional geography

This book attempts to provide a comprehensive understanding of the circumstances which have shaped India’s approach towards its international borders and the framework it has developed to better manage its borders.

The book argues that persistence of various cross-border threats and challenges and an absence of robust intra-regional trade among its neighbouring countries forced India to employ a security-centric and unilateral approach to border management with emphasis on hardening the borders to cross-border trade and travel and keeping the border areas underdeveloped to act as a buffer against external conventional threats. Besides discussing the threats and challenges that India faces along the borders, the book aims to develop an understanding of India’s border management practices by analysing various programmes and initiatives such as the raising of border guarding forces; building of physical and electronic fences; the establishment of modern facilities for smoothening legitimate cross-border travel; the development of the border areas through special programmes; and increasing trade and connectivity as well as other cooperative bilateral mechanisms.

Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan).

By: Pushpita Das
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 662g
ISBN: 9781032430119
ISBN 10: 1032430117
Pages: 366
Publication Date: 29 December 2022
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Security Threats to India’s Borders 2. Guarding the Borders 3. Border Infrastructure: Fences and Equipment 4. Strategic Roads and Railways in the Border Areas 5. Regulating India’s Borders: Cross Border Movement 6. Integrated Check Posts and Land Customs Stations 7. Border Area Development Programme 8. Connectivity in Border Areas: A Case of the Northeast 9. Cross-border Connectivity 10. Border Trade 11. Bilateral Institutional Mechanisms. The Next Steps

Pushpita Das is Research Fellow and Coordinator of the Internal Security Centre at the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA), New Delhi. Her areas of research include border security and management, coastal security, drug trafficking, migration, and India’s Northeast. At MP-IDSA she has been studying India’s approach towards the management of its international borders. She has been co-opted as an expert by the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) as well as the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on projects on Coastal Security. Dr. Das has written extensively on her areas of research including: monographs titled Illegal Migration from Bangladesh: Deportation, Fences, Work Permit (2016) and Coastal Security: the Indian Approach (2013); and a number of articles and commentaries in journals and books. Dr. Pushpita Das holds a Doctorate from the Jawaharlal Nehru University.