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India At 72: Peace Through Trade Across India’s Borders
The most valuable alternative view of India’s borders would be to create Qualified Industrial Zones at them, writes Raj Bhala.
21 Aug 2019, 08:48 PM IST
Seventy-two years after the British Partition of India on Aug. 15, 1947, India’s borders still delineate the economic concept of ‘opportunity cost’. At the places on its western, eastern, and northern frontiers where until Partition there were no lines, India chooses risk and excludes opportunity. To paraphrase the Old Testament Prophet, Isaiah (c. 700 B.C.), India’s borders are all swords and no ploughshares.
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