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2014
This paper seeks to address factors that were responsible for the making of the Ganges and Teesta water dispute, a transboundary water dispute between India and Bangladesh, after the start of decolonisation of South Asia. Drawing on both primary and secondary sources, it seeks to explore historical, political and socio-cultural circumstances behind the making of a bitterly contested international water dispute spanning over sixty years. No study of contemporary South Asian law and politics is complete without a critical analysis of the democratic institutions, structures and processes that were involved in the creation and development of one of the most intractable international water crises of the second half of the twentieth century. The roles of the respective governments of these two South Asian neighbours in the manifestation and resolving of this dispute is evaluated in the context of the Indian government's legitimate demand for the use of these two rivers for the successful implementation of its interlinking of rivers project.
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