A land border, going round
The obvious answer first
Most people answer that a neighbour is a country whose land touches ours, and that is the traditional view.
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India and Her Neighbours · Class 7 Social Science · Exploring Society
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15,100 kilometres of it
A very long line
The figure matters because of what the line crosses.
And two more neighbours
Sea on three sides
India has always been a maritime nation, with sea on three of its sides.
A relationship since 1950
Asia two largest
India and China are among the largest and most influential nations in Asia.
Five territories, west to east
Where the line runs
The Himalayas lie between them, and the border crosses five Indian territories.
And it began here
A powerful cultural link
Buddhism is the strongest tie between the two countries.
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What makes a country a neighbour
A neighbour usually means a shared land border, and India land boundary runs over 15,100 kilometres. The chapter then adds maritime neighbours across a shared ocean, and then working together, which it calls regionalism.…
- The traditional view of a neighbour is a country sharing a land boundary, and India has seven such neighbours.
- India land boundary runs over 15,100 kilometres, through river valleys and marshes, mountains and forests, plains and desert.
- India has sea on three sides, which makes Sri Lanka and the Maldives immediate neighbours across the water.
~45 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
2
Two hard borders: China, and Pakistan
India and China have shared a strategic relationship since 1950. Buddhism links them and a tense Himalayan border divides them, with trade running eight to one in China favour. Pakistan was part of India until 1947, and…
- India and China have shared a long strategic relationship since 1950, and China is about three times India size in area.
- The border runs across the Union Territory of Ladakh, then Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, then Sikkim, then Arunachal Pradesh.
- Buddhism began in India and reached China around the first century CE by trade and pilgrimage routes.
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3
Three borders, three histories: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal
Afghanistan once touched India until Pakistan was created in 1947, and the ancient Uttarapatha ran through it. Bangladesh was born in 1971 and shares India longest land border. Nepal border has stayed open under a treaty…
- Afghanistan is a landlocked, multiethnic country of south-central Asia that once shared a land border with India.
- The creation of Pakistan in 1947 complicated access between India and Afghanistan.
- Central Asia was linked to the Ganga plains by the Uttarapatha, which ran through Afghanistan, reaching Gandhara, which is modern Kandahar.
~45 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
4
Four smaller neighbours: Bhutan, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, the Maldives
Bhutan sends India renewable power and measures itself by a Gross National Happiness Index. Myanmar is the gateway to Southeast Asia. Sri Lanka lies 32 kilometres off. India reached the Maldives first in three crises, as…
- Bhutan calls itself Drukyul, the Land of the Thunder Dragon, a landlocked Himalayan kingdom between India and China.
- Rivers rising in Bhutan serve agriculture and hydroelectric power, and the Tala project was dedicated in 2008.
- Guru Padmasambhava, also Guru Rinpoche, brought the Vajrayana school to Bhutan in the eighth century CE.
~50 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
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The wider maritime neighbourhood, Thailand to Oman
Thai kingdoms were named after Dvaraka and Ayodhya, Malaysia took a script from Brahmi, and Indonesia puts Garuda on its money. The 2004 tsunami built a warning network across the ocean. Oman sent copper to Harappan smit…
- From a few centuries BCE Indian traders sailed to Southeast Asia for gold, naming islands Suvarnabhumi and Suvarnadvipa.
- Dvaravati culture, from the sixth to eleventh centuries CE, took its name from a Sanskrit word pointing at Dvaraka.
- Ayodhya gave its name to the Ayutthaya Kingdom, founded in 1351, and every Chakri monarch has been named Rama.
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Shown by the chapter widening the word neighbour twice over is that the ordinary meaning covers too
Advanced
A much
B many countries
C much water
D little
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little
A land border is only the start.
Of the seven countries sharing a land boundary with India, two of them lie to the east. Those are Myanmar and
Intermediate
A Bangladesh
B Nepal
C Pakistan
D Afghanistan
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Bangladesh
Bhutan and Nepal lie north.
To the north the border is with a region administered by China rather than with China proper. That region is
Advanced
A Yunnan
B Tibet
C Xinjiang
D Quanzhou
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Tibet
Separated by the Himalayas.
The land boundary of India crosses marsh and desert as well as mountain, and the chapter gives its length. Stretching that far is
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A boundary
B coastline
C railway
D highway
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boundary
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