Boundary Dispute: Fault Lines from History

Recently, violent clashes were witnessed in the border areas of Assam and Mizoram. This event is a reason of more than a century old boundary dispute in this area.

• The boundary between the two states, which runs 165 km today, has a history dating back to the time when Mizoram was a district of Assam and known as Lushai Hills.
• More recently, the dispute has been simmering since Mizoram became a Union Territory in 1972 and then a state in the 1980s. The two states signed an agreement that status quo should be maintained at no-man’s land set up in the ....