Till 1951 - 4 years after Partition of Indian Subcontinent : people from West #Bengal and East #Pakistan could travel across without any visas Possibly there was nothing like @BSF_India then . Agriculture , goods were exchanged , fields harvested Was it similar in West Pakistan?
@SatyaDharmaa come to think of it why did this situation continue in the eastern part and not in the western part of the subcontinent ? What did the Bombay Club merchants and their mentors in England really achieve ? Ultimately British ran after Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose chased
Them and INA created the atmospherics in the minds of English / British to cut and run . Talk talk by Americans helped to accelerate the process .
But what happened post December 1971 ? People still travelled back and forth between #Bangladesh & West #Bengal But now with visas
But what happened post December 1971 ? People still travelled back and forth between #Bangladesh & West #Bengal But now with visas
How does one look at this in the current times ? Tall speeches by Delhi Durbaris with subtle interplay / pulling of strings by Bombay Club and big speeches by Bangladesh honchos in Delhi with an eye to towards West Bengal and other things to play hookey .
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