Revisiting the Politics of the Ganga Water Dispute between India and Bangladesh

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ID12323085
AuthorsPunam Pandey (Punam Pandey is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, Delhi, India, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume68
Issue3
Pages267-281
Publication date2012-09-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueIndia Quarterly A Journal of International Affairs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0974-9284 • E-ISSN: 0975-2684
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0974928412454605
OpenAlexW2054260400
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited5

India and Bangladesh have signed the Ganga/Ganges River Water treaty in December 1996. The Ganga Water treaty is cited as one of the important examples of peaceful negotiations between upstream and downstream neighbours in South Asia. The present article revisits the Indo-Bangladesh Ganga Water politics and understands the political dynamics which led to the signing of the treaty between the two countries. The reading of the negotiation process since beginning to the present time suggests that though the technical nature of the problem remains the same, a change in domestic politics facilitates or obstructs the negotiation process. Since India and Bangladesh share another 53 rivers, it is important to learn a successful mechanism from the negotiation of 1996 which can be applied to other river issues. The article is based on primary as well as secondary sources

Business · Development economics · Downstream (manufacturing · Economics · Geography · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Treaty · Upstream (networking · Bangladesh Politics, Society, and Development · Engineering · Law · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · Transboundary Water Resource Management

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