RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
March 25, 2023 at 3:14 am
(This post was last modified: March 25, 2023 at 3:18 am by Anomalocaris.)
An exclave is a portion of one country’s sovereign that is completely surrounded by the sovereign territory of another.
For historic reasons harkening back to the principalities in the pre-British Mughal Empire and the way India and Pakistan separated from eachother at the time of their independence from British ruke, there are many small Indian and Bangladeshi exclaves in each other’s territory along the the border between the two countries.
There are several nested exclaves there where an exclave exists inside an exclave. There is one triple nested exclave where a Bangladeshi exclave exists inside an Indian exclave inside a Banglordeahi exclave inside India proper.
Because these exclaves represent long lasting ethnic and religious division, there is much hostility and much effort to make life inside exclaves difficult. For example, because there are no consulates that can grant visas inside these tiny exclaves, there is no way for residents to legally leave the exclaves because leaving requires a visa to enter the territory of the other country. In one bangladeshi enclave 85% of resident had spend time in Indian jails for illegally entering Indian territory before being deported back into their tiny exclave.
For historic reasons harkening back to the principalities in the pre-British Mughal Empire and the way India and Pakistan separated from eachother at the time of their independence from British ruke, there are many small Indian and Bangladeshi exclaves in each other’s territory along the the border between the two countries.
There are several nested exclaves there where an exclave exists inside an exclave. There is one triple nested exclave where a Bangladeshi exclave exists inside an Indian exclave inside a Banglordeahi exclave inside India proper.
Because these exclaves represent long lasting ethnic and religious division, there is much hostility and much effort to make life inside exclaves difficult. For example, because there are no consulates that can grant visas inside these tiny exclaves, there is no way for residents to legally leave the exclaves because leaving requires a visa to enter the territory of the other country. In one bangladeshi enclave 85% of resident had spend time in Indian jails for illegally entering Indian territory before being deported back into their tiny exclave.
