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See Samaddar Ranabir (ed.). Reflections on Partition in the East (New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., 1997). pp. 10–30.

Ibid. , p. 23.

For details see Hassan Shaukat , “India-Bangladesh Political Relations During the Awaini League Government. 1972–75”, Ann Arbor, Michigan, UMI Dissertation Service, 1988; and also Husain Syed Anwar , Bangabatulhur Pararashtraniti, Bangladesh, Daskshin Asia O Sampratik Viswa (Vernacular) (Foreign Policy of Bangabandhu, South Asia, Bangladesh and the contemporary world) (Dhaka: Agami Prokashoni, 1996). pp. 11–30.

For details see Narain Virendra , Foreign Policy of Bangladesh 1971-1981 (Jaipur: Aalekh publishers, 1987, pp. 89–92).

Ibid. , p. 105–10. Such a contention of the author bears testimony when a write-up welcoming the new rulers of Delhi is found in the Dainik Sangrain (Vernacular), a daily funded and managed by the anti-liberation political party Jamaat-i-Islanti . On 4 April 1977, it wrote: “we expect a new approach from the new government of India although a sizeable part of it was once the part of the Congress. It is natural that there will he a marked difference in the approach of the upholder of Gandhian principle of non-violence, the pure Brahmin Mr. Morarji Desai and that of the less than non-violent Mr. Nehru and Mrs. Indira Gandhi. Leaders like Mr. Morarji Desai and Atal Behari Vajpayee have already expressed their desire to improve relations with Bangladesh. We welcome these good intention.”

See for details indo-Bangladesh Joint Communique issued at the end of the visit Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Begum Khaleda Zia to India, 28 May 1992. The Daily Star, 29 May 1999.

Cited in Jetley Nancy , “India and Bangladesh: Some Perspectives”, in Chakravarty S.R. (ed.) Foreign Policy of Bangladesh (New Delhi: Har-Anand Publications, 1994), p. 84. For details on the Tin Bigha corridor issue see Sabur A.K.M. Abdus , “Bangladcsh-India Relations: Retrospect and Prospect”, in De Barun Samaddar Ranabir (eds.) Stae Development and Political Culture: Bangladesh and India (New Delhi: Har-Anand Publications Pvt. Ltd. 1997), pp. 302–306.

Jetly Nancy see note 7, p. 86.

For details see Husain Syed Anwar , “Bangladesh Foreign Policy: Achievements”, paper presented at the National Seminar on Bangladesh Foreign Policy: Achievements and Challenges, organized by Bangladesh Institute for International and Strategic Studies. Dhaka on 29 September 1997; and Husain Syed Anwar . War and Peace in the Chittagong Hill Tracts: Retrospect and Prospect (Dhaka: Agami Prakashoni. 1999).

For an exhaustive analysis of the whole gamut of economic relations between the countries see Dubey Muchkund , “Indo-Bangladesh Economic Relations”, in Chakravarty S.R. op. cit. , pp. 97–115, also Larma Mahendra P. . “Bangladesh-India Trade Relations: Some Critical issues”, in ibid. , pp. 116–135. For an Indian perspective on the issue see the perceptive analysis in Subhendu Dasgupta, “India Bangladesh Economic relations: Indian Perspective”. Occasional Paper, Department of South and Southeast Asia, Studies, Calcutta University. July 1992.

Cited in quarterly Bangladesh Foreign Policy Survey, Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic studies, vol. 5, Number 3, July-September 1999, p. 9.

Dhaka Courier, 25 June 1999, p. 11.

Sabur A.K.M. Abdus , op. cit. , p. 294.

Dasgupta Subhendu , see note 10, pp. 121–22.

Gupta Bhabani Sen , South Asian Perspectives: Seven Nation in Conflict and Cooperation (Delhi: B.R. Publishing Corporation, 1988), p. 47.