International Relations

India’s neighbourhood

School-level history and geography; basic constitutional institutions; first systematic study of international relations.

Includes

• Assigned sections and concise recall notes
• Available mapped practice and analysis of mistakes
• One initial closed-book review

Separate time needed

• Later revision and full timed papers
• Continuing diplomatic news and changing officeholders or statistics
• World-history chronology and general economic theory already assigned elsewhere

Editorial planning estimate; not learner timing data

• Gujral Doctrine: Ashok K. Behuria on the five principles ↗

  The reproduced September 1996 speech paragraph listing five principles, and the following observation that Pakistan was not among the named recipients of non-reciprocal treatment. Read as a historical doctrine, not a claim of current policy or demonstrated success. Exclude the surrounding garbled names, treaty anecdotes and dated political commentary.

• Contemporary World Politics, chapter 3: Contemporary South Asia (Reprint 2026–27) ↗

  Printed p. 38, opening Kashmir-conflict paragraph: historical dispute; exclude retrospective use of the term Line of Control for 1947–48 and current territorial-administration inferences

• Contemporary World Politics, chapter 3: Contemporary South Asia (Reprint 2026–27) ↗

  Printed pp. 38–39, attributed allegations and mutual distrust; historical account, not an independently established finding on every allegation

• Indus Waters Treaty 1960 and the role of the World Bank: fact sheet ↗

  The river-allocation paragraph, How the Treaty works, and the limited/procedural World Bank role; the hydropower paragraph only for treaty-specified exceptions. Read the June 2023 fact sheet as an account of the 1960 design. Exclude continuing-operation claims, current project status, case outcomes, later jurisdictional controversies and any inference about the treaty’s present implementation.

• Contemporary World Politics, chapter 3: Contemporary South Asia (Reprint 2026–27) ↗

  Printed p. 42, paragraph beginning Although India-Pakistan relations: confidence-building and social contacts; exclude current bus, visa and trade claims on p. 43

• Contemporary World Politics, chapter 2: Contemporary Centres of Power (Reprint 2026–27) ↗

  Printed p. 25: post-independence boundary disagreements and 1962 conflict; historical trajectory, not present border conditions

• Contemporary World Politics, chapter 2: Contemporary Centres of Power (Reprint 2026–27) ↗

  Printed p. 25, paragraph on Tibet and the boundary disagreement; exclude general claims about ancient cultural interaction

• Contemporary World Politics, chapter 2: Contemporary Centres of Power (Reprint 2026–27) ↗

  Printed p. 26: trade/cooperation account alongside final paragraph on tensions. Exclude trade figures, unbroken-negotiation claims and forecasts that conflict is unlikely

• Annual Report 2022 ↗

  PDF p. 75, final China paragraph on engagement in multilateral platforms; engagement does not mean agreement on every issue

• Annual Report 2022 ↗

  PDF pp. 74–75, diplomatic/military dialogue and WMCC/Senior Commander mechanisms; 2022 account, exclude present disengagement-status inference

• Annual Report 2022 ↗

  PDF p. 74, opening China paragraphs and EAM position; attribute the Indian government’s account and exclude current status

• Commerce Wing Brief: India-Nepal trade and transit ↗

  Paragraph 7 final sentence and paragraph 9 opening: open borders as a trade and connectivity link; no personal travel-document advice

• Commerce Wing Brief: India-Nepal trade and transit ↗

  Paragraphs 4 and 12: access through Indian territory to maritime and third-country trade routes

• India-Nepal bilateral brief, June 2024 ↗

  PDF p. 7, first Power Sector Cooperation paragraph: generation, transmission, bidirectional trade and grids; exclude earnings estimate

• India-Nepal bilateral brief, June 2024 ↗

  PDF p. 5, first paragraph’s integrated-check-post examples only; exclude reversed country attribution for Jayanagar/Kurtha and current project status

• India-Nepal bilateral brief, June 2024 ↗

  PDF pp. 4–6, development grants and community projects; distinguish grants from the subsequent line-of-credit paragraph; exclude totals and route mislabelling

• India-Bhutan relations, November 2025 ↗

  Paragraph 1: 1949 framework revised in 2007; this overview does not supply individual treaty articles

• India-Bhutan relations, November 2025 ↗

  Paragraph 8 and paragraph 9 market-access sentences; exclude project totals and completion chronology

• India-Bhutan relations, November 2025 ↗

  Paragraph 9: market access for sales and imports during lean seasons

• India-Bhutan relations, November 2025 ↗

  Paragraph 10 first sentence: trade and transit framework; exclude market shares

• India-Bhutan relations, November 2025 ↗

  Paragraphs 6–7: plan-linked grants and project mechanisms; exclude erroneous first-plan year, counts and the inconsistent count of funding heads

• India-Bangladesh relations, 2024 ↗

  Paragraph 7, PDF pp. 2–3: agencies, boundary inspections and coordination; pre-August-2024 account

• India-Bangladesh relations, 2024 ↗

  Paragraphs 10 and 13: rail and port access; 2024 account, not current service status

• India-Bangladesh relations, 2024 ↗

  Paragraph 12, PDF pp. 4–5: PIWTT trade and transit mechanism; exclude contemporary service counts

• India-Bangladesh relations, 2024 ↗

  Paragraph 16, PDF pp. 5–6: power trade and JWG/JSC institutions; exclude current quantities and plant status

• Annual Report 2022 ↗

  PDF p. 37, Other Bilateral Engagements: Joint River Commission as a mechanism; no inference about treaty powers from an event list

• Annual Report 2022 ↗

  PDF p. 37, Kushiyara and 1996 Ganges agreement paragraph: named bilateral arrangements are not a comprehensive basin settlement

• India-Sri Lanka relations, 2024 ↗

  PDF pp. 3–4, Trade and Commerce: FTA and proposed ETCA; November 2024 snapshot, not current negotiation status or trade totals

• India-Sri Lanka relations, 2024 ↗

  PDF p. 5, Development Cooperation: housing, rehabilitation, health and northern railway examples; exclude totals and current completion claims

• India-Sri Lanka relations, 2024 ↗

  PDF pp. 5–6, paragraph beginning Besides the developmental assistance: credit, currency swap, payment deferral and humanitarian support in 2022; exclude the erroneous USD 500 petroleum-credit amount and other totals

• India-Sri Lanka relations, 2024 ↗

  PDF p. 4, Connectivity and Tourism: transport, energy and payment links; November 2024 account, distinguish proposals from operational links and exclude tourism totals

• Contemporary World Politics, chapter 3: Contemporary South Asia (Reprint 2026–27) ↗

  Printed p. 37, paragraph beginning The Sri Lankan problem: domestic Tamil pressure on Indian policy. Exclude p. 36’s conflation of Tamil communities, cartoons and present-policy inferences

• Contemporary World Politics, chapter 3: Contemporary South Asia (Reprint 2026–27) ↗

  Printed p. 37, 1987 accord/intervention paragraph: aims, conflict with LTTE and objections. Exclude the incorrect 1989 final-withdrawal date; the chapter timeline on p. 32 gives the 1987–90 intervention period

• Annual Report 2022 ↗

  PDF pp. 43–45: coastal radar, hydrographic survey and joint-surveillance examples; 2022 mechanisms only, exclude present personnel/deployment inference

• Annual Report 2022 ↗

  PDF p. 44, Development Cooperation: concessional credit and grant project mechanisms; exclude totals and present completion claims

• Annual Report 2022 ↗

  PDF p. 45, helicopter/Dornier paragraph: medical evacuation and search missions in the 2022 account; exclude counts and present operating arrangements

• Annual Report 2022 ↗

  PDF p. 45, opening Myanmar paragraphs: land link to ASEAN and overlap of neighbourhood/Act East priorities

• Annual Report 2022 ↗

  PDF p. 45, first Myanmar paragraph: displacement into northeastern states; no inference about current asylum or border-entry rules

• Annual Report 2022 ↗

  PDF pp. 45–46: Kaladan/Trilateral Highway and security-related implementation constraints; 2022 account, not present project status

• Annual Report 2022 ↗

  PDF p. 45, opening and diplomatic-dialogue paragraphs; p. 46, Humanitarian Assistance: medicines, vaccines and food; exclude totals

• Annual Report 2022 ↗

  PDF p. 36: humanitarian delivery, international organizations and technical-team contact after August 2021. The account does not establish formal recognition or its absence

• Accessing Afghanistan and Central Asia: Importance of Chabahar to India (October 2013) ↗

  PDF p. 7, The Afghanistan Factor, first two paragraphs only: the 2013 transit constraint through Pakistan and Iran as an alternative. This is the authors’ contemporaneous analysis, including an attributed Indian ambassador position, not a current transit or sanctions advisory. Exclude numerical claims, project promises, port-shipment chronology, maps, tables and forecasts elsewhere in the report.

• Annual Report 2022 ↗

  PDF p. 36, opening paragraph: capacity building as one of five long-standing partnership strands; historical framework, not current access or programme totals

• Neighbourhood First Policy, Annexure A to parliamentary answer, 2 February 2024 ↗

  Annexure A, opening Neighbourhood First paragraph: physical, digital and people-to-people connectivity

• Neighbourhood First Policy, Annexure A to parliamentary answer, 2 February 2024 ↗

  Annexure A, opening Neighbourhood First paragraph: trade and commerce

• Contemporary World Politics, chapter 3: Contemporary South Asia (Reprint 2026–27) ↗

  Printed p. 41, paragraph beginning You may have noticed: reciprocal perceptions and outside-power concerns; attribute perceptions rather than endorse them

• Gujral Doctrine: Ashok K. Behuria on the five principles ↗

  Reproduced speech, first principle: Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives and Sri Lanka; Pakistan is not in this list

• Gujral Doctrine: Ashok K. Behuria on the five principles ↗

  Reproduced speech, second principle

• Gujral Doctrine: Ashok K. Behuria on the five principles ↗

  Reproduced speech, third principle

• Gujral Doctrine: Ashok K. Behuria on the five principles ↗

  Reproduced speech, fourth principle

• Gujral Doctrine: Ashok K. Behuria on the five principles ↗

  Reproduced speech, fifth principle

• Sixth India-Sri Lanka Joint Working Group on Fisheries, 29 October 2024 ↗

  Paragraphs 4–5: distinguish agreed humanitarian approach from the Indian request for releases

• Sixth India-Sri Lanka Joint Working Group on Fisheries, 29 October 2024 ↗

  Paragraph 6: surveillance, patrolling and hotline; distinguish joint cooperation from India’s no-force request

• Sixth India-Sri Lanka Joint Working Group on Fisheries, 29 October 2024 ↗

  Paragraph 7: requested association meeting and continuing bilateral discussions; no claim that the meeting occurred

• Commerce Wing Brief: India-Nepal trade and transit ↗

  Paragraph 4 and paragraph 12; distinguish trade preferences from third-country transit

• Commerce Wing Brief: India-Nepal trade and transit ↗

  Paragraph 15: cooperation on water resources, floods, inundation and hydropower

• Commerce Wing Brief: India-Nepal trade and transit ↗

  Paragraph 16, first two sentences: the 1954 agreement revised in 1966; avoid inferring full treaty terms from this overview

• Commerce Wing Brief: India-Nepal trade and transit ↗

  Paragraph 16, first two sentences: the 1959 agreement revised in 1964; avoid inferring full treaty terms from this overview

• Commerce Wing Brief: India-Nepal trade and transit ↗

  Paragraph 16, Mahakali sentence: 1996 treaty and envisaged Pancheshwar project; not a completion claim

• Indus Waters Treaty 1960 and the role of the World Bank: fact sheet ↗

  River-allocation paragraph: Indus/Jhelum/Chenab and Ravi/Beas/Sutlej; read together with permitted exceptions

• Indus Waters Treaty 1960 and the role of the World Bank: fact sheet ↗

  River-allocation paragraph and hydropower paragraph: exceptions and constrained uses, not unrestricted sovereignty

• Indus Waters Treaty 1960 and the role of the World Bank: fact sheet ↗

  How the Treaty works: one commissioner from each country; historical treaty design

• Indus Waters Treaty 1960 and the role of the World Bank: fact sheet ↗

  How the Treaty works: distinguish differences from questions and disputes; no current-case jurisdiction conclusion

• Indus Waters Treaty 1960 and the role of the World Bank: fact sheet ↗

  How the Treaty works: dispute mechanism; do not infer a mandatory linear escalation of every case

• Indus Waters Treaty 1960 and the role of the World Bank: fact sheet ↗

  Paragraph following How the Treaty works: designated appointments, not adjudication of the merits