SUGAULI TREATY FULL DETAILS ABOUT NEW DIPUTE BETWEEN INDIA AND NEPAL

THE STORY BEGINS FROM THE 19^TH CENTURY.

THE DECENDENTS OF KING PRITHVI NARAYAN SHAH KEEP EXPANDING THEIR TERRITORY.

THE BRITISHERS IN INDIA DID NOT LIKED THIS AND WAR BEGINGS (ANGLO NEPALI WAR)

WAR BEGINS IN 1814 ANDED IN 1816.

AT THE END OF THE WAR THE TREATY BETWEEN NEPAL AND EAST INDIA COMPANY SIGNED ( SUGAULI TREATY )

SIGNED IN 2^ND DECEMBER 1815 AND RATTIFIED ON 4^TH MARCH 1816.

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WHAT WAS UNDER THIS TREATY?

UNDER THIS TREATY THE NEPALESE TERRITORY INCLUDING DARJEELING WERE HANDED OVER TO THE BRITISH EAST INDIA COMPANY.

THE TREATY DEFINED THE MAHAKALI RIVER AS THE WESTERN BORDER OF NEPAL.

THIS TREATY ALSO DEFINED RIVER GANDAK AS THE INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY BETWEEN INDIA AND NEPAL.

REASON FOR THE DISPUTE?

INDIA CLAIMS THAT THE RIVER MAHAKALI BEGINS IN KALAPANI.

NEPAL CLAIMS THAT THE RIVER BEGINS FROM THE LIPULEKH PASS.

AT THE TIME OF TREATY OF SUGAULI THE SUSTA REGION WAS ON THE RIGHT BANK OF THE RIVER GANDAK WHICH FALLS UNDER NEPAL.

BUT NOW RIVER HAS CHANGED ITS COURSE AND SUSTA NOW FALLS ON THE LEFT BANK OF THE RIVER GANDAK WHICH IS UNDER INDIAN CONTROL.

SOME KEY POINTS

NEPAL’S SUPREME COURT HAS ORDERED THE GOVT. TO SUBMIT THE ORIGINAL MAP EXCHANGED WITH INDIA DURING THE TREATY OF SUGAULI.

ACCORDING TO THE NEPALI NEWSPAPER THE ORIGINAL DOCUMENT IS MISSING IN NEPAL.

NEPAL CONSTITUTED A COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE ABOUT WHERE IS THE ORIGINAL MAP.

  WHY KALAPANI IS IMPORTANT FOR INDIA?

 THE LIPULEKH REGION IN KALAPANI IS IMPORTANT FOR INDIA TO KEEP EYE OF THE CHINESE TROOPS MOVEMENT

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