My understanding is that East Pakistan would simply be merged with West Bengal to form a single Bengal state, provided this did happen.Even if Bangladesh would want join to India, would India want new Muslim majority state?
My understanding is that East Pakistan would simply be merged with West Bengal to form a single Bengal state, provided this did happen.
in 1971 there was 68 million in Bangladesh. Dunno about West Bengal at the time.Not sure if people of Bangladesh would accept that. And even still there would be even bigger Muslim minority in India.
high-risk high-reward essentially?I think Bangladesh will come as a sovereign state like Kashmir before abrogation of 370, also it will stabilise the Hindu Muslim relationship in India, but India will have more direct access to eastern Seven sisters, but the relationship between India and western and Eastern world be destroyed for next decade. also, the Bengal and Bangladesh will be never united to make the new state.
or it will fail horribly and India will cant suppress separatism in Bangladesh and will lose his eastern part totally.
both can happen.