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'''Border disputes of [[Northeast India]]''' mainly include inter-[[States and union territories of India|state]] conflict between [[Assam]]–[[Mizoram]], Assam–[[Arunachal Pradesh]], Assam–[[Nagaland]] and Assam–[[Meghalaya]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Parashar|first=Utpal|date=2020-10-20|title=North-east border disputes: All you need to know|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/north-east-border-disputes-all-you-need-to-know/story-SHxgevpJ08gAu8pS7SQ5mN.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-07-28|website=Hindustan Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=12 March 2012|title=12 Areas of Dispute on Meghalaya-Assam Border|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/newswire/story/12-areas-of-dispute-on-meghalaya-assam-border/755122|url-status=live|access-date=2021-07-29|website=Outlook India}}</ref> The disputes, including clashes between rival police forces, have resulted in the loss of life, livelihood and property.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Kalita|first=Prabin|date=23 August 2014|title=Unhappy with boundaries, NE sisters nibbling away at our land, Gogoi says|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/unhappy-with-boundaries-ne-sisters-nibbling-away-at-our-land-gogoi-says/articleshow/40740652.cms|url-status=live|access-date=2021-07-28|website=The Times of India}}</ref> The border disputes in some cases are part of the larger national (separatist), sub-regional and ethnic conflicts, as well as criminal enterprise fuelled.{{sfnp|Second Administrative Reforms Commission Seventh Report|2008|p=39}} This internal [[Land conflict in India|land conflict]] in the districts of the northeast are part of the 322 districts affected by ongoing land conflicts out of a total of 703 districts in India.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Worsdell|first=T|last2=Shrivastava|first2=K|date=2020|title=Locating the Breach: Mapping the nature of land conflicts in India|url=https://global-uploads.webflow.com/5d70c9269b8d7bd25d8b1696/5ecd20dd626f166d67f67461_Locating_the_Breach_Feb_2020.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215124141/https://global-uploads.webflow.com/5d70c9269b8d7bd25d8b1696/5ecd20dd626f166d67f67461_Locating_the_Breach_Feb_2020.pdf|archive-date=15 February 2021|access-date=29 July 2021|website=Land Conflict Watch|publisher=Nut Graph LLP, Rights and Resources Initiative, and Oxfam India|location=New Delhi}}</ref>

== Assam–Mizoram ==
Conflict between the British and Lushai Hills (Mizo) tribes caused both sides to feel the need for a boundary.<ref name=":0" /> [[Cachar district|Cachar]] (Assam) Deputy Commissioner [[John Ware Edgar]] signed a treaty/boundary agreement with Lushai (Mizo) Chief Suakpuilala in 1871.<ref name=":0" /> Following this the boundary was marked with 46 boundary pillars.<ref name=":0" /> One of the first recorded instances of the enforcement of political borders between Assam and Lushai Hills (now Mizoram) was in 1926 when five men, returning from [[Shillong]] (then Assam), were arrested by the then Superintendent of Lushai Hills [[N.E. Parry]].{{sfn|Hluna|Tochhawng|2013|p=1}} In 1933, a notification defined an ''Inner Line'' or ''Boundary Line'' between then Assam and Lushai Hills district (Mizoram).{{Sfn|Das|2021|p=1-2}}{{sfn|Hluna|Tochhawng|2013|p=335-337}}{{Quote box
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| quote = ''The 9th March, 1933. No 2106-A.P.''<br />

[…] in exercise of the power conferred by section 2 of the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation, 1873 (v of 1873), as extended to the Lushai Hills District, the Governor in Council with the previous sanction of the Governor General in Council, is pleased to prescribe the line described below as the 'Inner Line' of the Lushai Hills District.
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}}The [[North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) Act, 1971]] defines the boundary between Assam and Mizoram in independent India;{{Sfn|Das|2021|p=1-2}} this is based on the 1933 notification.{{Sfn|Das|2021|p=1-2}} However, the usage of the 1933 notification in the modern context is disputed.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Hnamte|first=Thanchungnunga|date=2020-12-19|title=Historical and political perspectives|url=https://www.sentinelassam.com/editorial/historical-and-political-perspectives-516992|url-status=live|access-date=2021-08-01|website=Sentinel Assam}}</ref> In 1972 Mizoram was carved out of Assam as a [[union territory]], and following the [[Mizoram Peace Accord]], in 1987 it became a state.{{Sfn|Wahlang|2021|p=4-5}}{{Sfn|Pachuau|2009|p=17-18}} Initially Mizoram accepted the border with Assam but following encroachment, Mizoram started disputing the border.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Das|first=Pushpita|date=12 June 2008|title=Interstate Border Disputes in the Northeast|url=https://idsa.in/idsastrategiccomments/InterstateBorderDisputesintheNortheast_PDas_120608|url-status=live|access-date=2021-08-01|website=Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses}}</ref>

1980s onwards, there have been skirmishes, small buildings have been set on fire, economic blockades have been attempted, and in 2021, 6 [[Assam Police]] personnel died in a firing incident by [[Mizoram Police]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Deb|first=Debraj|date=2021-07-28|title=Explained: How did the 150-year-old Assam-Mizoram dispute get so violent now?|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/the-assam-mizoram-dispute-violence-policemen-dead-7425600/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-07-28|website=The Indian Express}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Hasnat|first=Karishma|date=2020-10-21|title=All about Assam-Mizoram border dispute, which dates back 50 yrs & still remains unresolved|url=https://theprint.in/theprint-essential/all-about-assam-mizoram-border-dispute-which-dates-back-50-yrs-still-remains-unresolved/527367/|access-date=2021-07-28|website=ThePrint|language=en-US}}</ref> Both sides blame each for this serious escalation of the conflict which resulted in 80 persons also getting injured.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2021-07-30|title=Assam-Mizoram clash: Why peace is fragile between two India states|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-57969157|access-date=2021-08-01}}</ref> The central government stepped in to assist in de-escalating the immediate situation between the rival state police forces and attempt a future solution.{{Sfn|Das|2021|p=1-2}}

== Assam–Nagaland ==
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As with the case of the Assam–Mizoram, the Assam-Nagaland dispute, has a decades old history which was worsened by the creation Nagaland as a separate state in 1963.{{Sfn|Wahlang|2021|p=4-5}} In June 1968, a clash between government forces and militants resulted in the deaths of at least 150.<ref>{{Cite web|title=17. India/Nagas (1947-present)|url=https://uca.edu/politicalscience/dadm-project/asiapacific-region/indianagas-1947-present/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-08-07|website=University of Central Arkansas|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Shimray|first=A. S. Atai|url=https://books.google.co.in/books?id=kQSV50-O5-IC|title=Let Freedom Ring?: Story of Naga Nationalism|date=2005|publisher=Bibliophile South Asia|isbn=978-81-85002-61-3|pages=313|language=en}}</ref> [[Kalyan Sundaram]] was appointed on 7 August 1971<ref>[https://eparlib.nic.in/bitstream/123456789/724053/1/2183.pdf Title: Inter State Border dispute between Assam and Nagaland.] [[Sarbananda Sonowal]]. ''Digital Library. Lok Sabha. Parliament of India.'' Retrieved 7 August 2021.</ref> to look into the problem with the specific mandate of looking into the border. This resulted in four interim agreements, however in the long run this did not have much of an impact on the dispute.{{Sfn|Das|2021|p=3-4}} Following this some major events in the conflict include— 54 killed and 23,500 forced into relief camps in 1979 (between [[Rengma Naga|Rengma]] and [[Karbi people|Karbi]] tribes); 41 killed including 28 police personnel in 1985 (Merapani incident) and 17 killed and 10,000 forced into relief camps in 2014.{{Sfn|Wahlang|2021|p=4-5}}<ref>{{Cite web|last=Bhattacharya|first=Ashmita|date=31 March 2021|title=Nagas Target Assamese People as Assam-Nagaland Border Dispute Continues since 1960s|url=https://www.landconflictwatch.org/conflicts/assam-nagaland-border-dispute|url-status=live|access-date=2021-08-06|website=Land Conflict Watch}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Misra|first=Udayon|date=2014|title=Assam-Nagaland Border Violence|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24480698|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|volume=49|issue=38|pages=15–18|issn=0012-9976}}</ref>

Territorial claims of Nagaland in Assam include parts of [[Golaghat district]], [[Jorhat district]] and [[Sivasagar district|Sibsagar district]] in the '''Disputed Area Belt''' (DAB).{{Sfn|Das|2021|p=4}} 4 interim-agreements signed in 1972 put the reserve forests of "Geleki, Abhoypur, Tiru Hills, Dessoi Valley and Doyang" off limits for activity like construction of roads.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Saikia|first=Rupam|last2=Saikia|first2=Anjan|date=2014|title=Assam – Nagaland border dispute "vis a vis" stability in regional politics (a micro-analysis from historical perspective)|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44158522|journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress|volume=75|pages=1304|issn=2249-1937|via=JSTOR}}</ref>{{Sfn|Shastri|1987|p=13}} The interim-agreements remained in place for longer than what was intended.{{Sfn|Suykens|2013|p=3}}
[[File:Assam-Nagaland, area covered in four interim agreements 1972.png|thumb|400x400px|"This deplorable situation was brought to an end by four Interim Agreements. Two of them were signed by the Chief Secretaries on 31-3-1972 (at) Shillong […] These four agreements between them covered the boundary between Assam and Nagaland from the Taukok river to the Doyang river." — '''Shastri report, 1985'''.{{Sfn|Shastri|1987|p=28}} (Represented by the light blue/cyan area). The red line denotes Guwahati-Dibrugarh rail route, the [[NSCN-IM|NSCN(IM)]] claim in the four districts.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Kashyap|first=Samudra Gupta|date=2014-08-22|title=Assam vs Nagaland, a border dispute of five decades|url=https://www.financialexpress.com/archive/assam-vs-nagaland-a-border-dispute-of-five-decades/1281413/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-08-08|website=The Financial Express|quote=The NSCN(IM), incidentally, wants the entire Assam tract south of the Guwahati-Dibrugarh railway track in these four districts in Greater Nagalim.}}</ref>|center]]

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=== Disputed Area Belt ===
The DAB, officially, is forest land ([[Reserved forests and protected forests of India|Forest Reserves or reserved forests]]) and linked with the British Inner Line, "put up to protect the civilized state in the plains from raids and encroachment from the ungoverned Naga areas".{{Sfn|Suykens|2013|p=3, 17}} Doyang RF designated in 1911 is now no longer a forest, though its official designation remains.{{Sfn|Suykens|2013|p=10}} DAB has been converted to an agricultural zone from the official protected forest it once was and on paper remains.{{Sfn|Suykens|2013|p=3}} These encroachments have helped the governments in both Assam and Nagaland,{{Sfn|Suykens|2013|p=3}} as well as the various factions of separatist [[National Socialist Council of Nagaland|NSCN]], lay claim to the territory, despite an official status quo is supposed to be in place.{{Sfn|Suykens|2013|p=16-18}} And while the status quo is in place, no "regularisation" has taken place.{{Sfn|Suykens|2013|p=11}} No [[Patta (land deed)|patta rights]] or land rights exist, but encroachments are supported.{{Sfn|Suykens|2013|p=13-14}} Once these encroached lands were on the edges, but now are at the center of the border dispute.{{Sfn|Suykens|2013|p=11}}

To further cement their claims both Assam and Nagaland abide by informal practices in the DAB. Supporting encroachment in the 1960s led to population growth in DAB areas, resulting in the need to build schools. Both government and private school have been set up since 1971.{{Sfn|Suykens|2013|p=12}} Overlapping administrative have been created such as Niuland and Kohobotu.{{Sfn|Suykens|2013|p=5}} In 1979 the CRPF was called into the DAB as a "neutral" force, following the 1985 Merapani incident DAB was put under the CRPF.{{Sfn|Suykens|2013|p=5}} State transport bus services are present in DAB.{{Sfn|Suykens|2013|p=12}} "Insurgent taxation" was a reality in the DAB.{{Sfn|Suykens|2013|p=16}}
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== Assam–Meghalaya ==
The Assam Meghalaya dispute was further exacerbated by disagreements related to the Assam Reorganisation (Meghalaya) Act of 1969.{{Sfn|Das|2021|p=7}}

== Dispute management and resolution ==

=== Peace accords, autonomous councils and states ===
[[File:NE Autonomous divisions of India.svg|thumb|420x420px|Autonomous councils in North East India]]
To address the larger conflict in the northeast which directly impacts the situation of the internal borders, the Indian government has signed more than 13 peace accords between 1949 and 2005.{{Sfn|Raja|2008|p=ix}} Creation of [[Autonomous administrative divisions of India|autonomous council]], and its upgradation to [[States and union territories of India|states]], is part of this process. However after the creation of Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram in 1986, no new states have been created, only autonomous administrative divisions.{{Sfn|Raja|2008|p=43}}

=== Demarcation ===
The task of demarcating the boundaries would be assisted by the [[North-Eastern Space Applications Centre]] (set up by the [[North Eastern Council]] and [[Department of Space]]), thus integrating space technology and satellite imagery into the mapping process.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=1 August 2021|title=Centre to rely on satellite imaging to resolve border disputes between northeastern states; here's how|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/ne-states-borders-to-be-demarcated-satellite-imaging-resolve-border-disputes-1835424-2021-08-01|url-status=live|access-date=2021-08-01|website=India Today}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Jain|first=Bharti|date=1 August 2021|title=Assam-Mizoram row: Northeast borders to be demarcated through satellite imaging|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/border-issue-north-eastern-space-applications-centre-tasked-with-demarcating-borders/articleshow/84943139.cms|url-status=live|access-date=2021-08-01|website=The Times of India}}</ref>

=== Supreme Court ===
In 1989, Assam filed a case before the [[Supreme Court of India]] in relation to the border dispute with Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Border Dispute, Border Protection and Development, Government Of Assam, India|url=https://bpdd.assam.gov.in/portlets/border-dispute|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210226090237/https://bpdd.assam.gov.in/portlets/border-dispute|archive-date=26 February 2021|access-date=2021-07-29|website=bpdd.assam.gov.in}}</ref>

=== Commissions and mediators ===
'''Assam-Nagaland'''
* Sundaram Commission (1971)<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|date=29 July 2021|title=Explainer: How Assam's border disputes with north-eastern states bedevils relations|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/explainers/2021/jul/29/explainer-howassams-border-disputes-with-north-eastern-statesbedevils-relations-2337255.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-08-08|website=The New Indian Express}}</ref>
* [[iarchive:dli.csl.1216|Shastri Commission]] (1985)<ref name=":3" />
* Variava/Tarun Chatterjee Commission (2006)<ref>{{Cite web|date=13 August 2007|title=Assam sees no end to border disputes with neighbouring states|url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/assam-sees-no-end-to-border-disputes-with-neighbouring-states/210214/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-08-08|website=archive.indianexpress.com|publisher=The Indian Express}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2010-09-15|title=SC-appointed panel submits report|url=https://assamtribune.com/sc-appointed-panel-submits-report|url-status=live|access-date=2021-08-08|website=The Assam Tribune}}</ref>
* Mediators Sriram Panchu and Niranjan Bhatt (2010)<ref name=":4" />

=== Border Peace Coordination Committee ===
Border Peace Coordination Committee provides for localised negotiation on the borderlands between Assam and Nagaland, such as when a localised land disputes arise.<ref>{{Cite web|date=12 December 2014|title=Peace committee tours Assam-Nagaland border|url=https://easternmirrornagaland.com/peace-committee-tours-assam-nagaland-border/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-08-08|website=Eastern Mirror Nagaland}}</ref>{{Sfn|Suykens|2013|p=14}} As ownership is not attached to the state, informal direct negotiations take place, usually in CRPF camp.{{Sfn|Suykens|2013|p=14}}

== Background ==
<gallery widths="220" heights="220" caption="Evolution of states and borders">
File:Ahom-kingdom-c1826p.png|1826
File:Assam 1951.svg|1951
File:Assam 1970.svg|1970
File:SevenSisterStates.png|Today
</gallery>

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

=== Bibliography ===

* {{Citation|last=Wahlang|first=Jason|title=Internal Border Conflicts of the North East Region: Special Focus on Assam and its Bordering States|date=April 2021|url=https://www.claws.in/static/IB-286_Internal-Border-Conflicts-of-the-North-East-Region-Special-Focus-on-Assam-and-its-Bordering-States.pdf|issue=286|publisher=Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS)}}
*{{Citation|last=Das|first=Pushpita|title=Inter-state Border Disputes in Northeast India|date=29 July 2021|url=https://www.idsa.in/issuebrief/disputes-in-northeast-india-pdas-290721|pages=11|publisher=Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA)}}
*{{Cite book|last=Hluna|first=J. V.|url=https://books.google.co.in/books?id=SbMwBwAAQBAJ|title=The Mizo Uprising: Assam Assembly Debates on the Mizo Movement, 1966-1971|last2=Tochhawng|first2=Rini|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|year=2013|isbn=9781443845021}}
*{{Cite book|last=Pachuau|first=Rintluanga|title=Mizoram: A Study in Comprehensive Geography|publisher=Northern Book Centre|year=2009|isbn=9788172112646}}
*{{Cite book|last=Raja|first=Swarna|url=https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/90881/ps046.pdf|title=Peace Accords in Northeast India: Journey over Milestones|work=Policy Studies 46|publisher=East West Center|others=Carnegie Corporation, New York|year=2008|isbn=|eissn=15471330}}
*{{Cite book|url=https://darpg.gov.in/sites/default/files/capacity_building7.pdf|title=Capacity Building for Conflict Resolution|publisher=Second Administrative Reforms Commission (ARC) Seventh Report. Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances.|year=February 2008|pages=143-179|chapter=12: Conflicts in the Northeast|ref={{sfnref|Second Administrative Reforms Commission Seventh Report|2008}}}}
'''Assam-Nagaland'''
*{{Cite journal|last=Chasie|first=Charles|date=2005|title=Nagaland in Transition|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23006032|journal=India International Centre Quarterly|volume=32|issue=2/3|pages=253–264|issn=0376-9771}}
*{{Cite book|last=Sharma|first=Suresh K.|url=https://books.google.co.in/books?id=_-YixIgJbSAC|title=Documents on North-East India: Nagaland|date=2006|publisher=Mittal Publications|isbn=978-81-8324-095-6|language=en}}
*{{Cite book|last=Suykens|first=Bert|title=Violence on the Margins: States, Conflict, and Borderlands|publisher=Springer|year=2013|isbn=9781137333995|editor-last=Korf|editor-first=Benedikt|chapter=State Making and the Suspension of Law in India’s Northeast: The Place of Exception in the Assam-Nagaland Border Dispute|editor-last2=Raeymaekers|editor-first2=Timothy|chapter-url=https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a44f918f9a61e04cdd5d717/t/5e66beda7633b2769e239c04/1583791836994/Suykens.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210808115845/https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a44f918f9a61e04cdd5d717/t/5e66beda7633b2769e239c04/1583791836994/Suykens.pdf|archive-date=8 August 2021}}
*{{Citation|last=Shastri|first=R K.|title=Report of the Commission of Inquiry on the Incidents Relating to the Assam-Nagaland Border Conflict April-June 1985|date=1987|url=https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.1216|publisher=New Delhi, Ministry of Home Affairs}}

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