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'''Dahala Khagrabari (#51)''' ({{langx|bn|দাহালা খাগড়াবাড়ী (#৫১)}}) was an Indian [[enclave]] located on the [[Bangladesh–India border]] belonging to the [[district of Cooch Behar]] in the state of [[West Bengal]]. This was a piece of India within a piece of [[Bangladesh]] within a piece of India within Bangladesh, making it the only [[Enclave and exclave#Enclaves within enclaves|third-order enclave]] (or counter-counter enclave) in the world until 1 August 2015, when it was ceded to Bangladesh.<br />
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At {{convert|7000|m2|acre}}— [[Orders of magnitude (area)|approximately the size]] of an [[association football]] [[Football pitch|field]]— it was one of the smallest of the [[Indo-Bangladesh enclaves|India–Bangladesh enclaves]]: 106 Indian exclaves inside Bangladesh and 92 Bangladeshi exclaves inside India.<br />
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==Overview==<br />
Dahala Khagrabari (#51) was completely encircled by the [[Bangladesh]]i village of 'Upanchowki Bhajni, 110' itself contained in the Indian village of Balapara Khagrabari, itself contained in the Debiganj, [[Rangpur Division]], Bangladesh. Thus, Dahala Khagrabari was the enclave of an enclave of an enclave. In practice, it was a parcel of land used for farming and was not actually inhabited. It was separated by a few metres of Bangladeshi land from its first-order Indian enclave.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Guo|first=Rongxing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VkJHDgAAQBAJ|title=Cross-Border Resource Management|date=2017-10-23|publisher=Elsevier|isbn=978-0-444-64005-5|pages=277|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Fessenden|first=Marissa|date=5 August 2015|title=This Was the Turducken of Border Disputes|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/was-turducken-border-disputes-180956161/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-03-14|website=Smithsonian Magazine|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150807171310/http://www.smithsonianmag.com:80/smart-news/was-turducken-border-disputes-180956161/? |archive-date=2015-08-07 }}</ref><br />
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The owner of this enclave was a Bangladeshi farmer who lived in the enclave surrounding Dahala Khagrabari (#51).<br />
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Despite its small size, Dahala Khagrabari (#51) was not the smallest of the enclaves found on the [[Indo-Bangladesh border|Bangladesh–India border]], the smallest being Panisala No. 79, an Indian enclave of {{convert|1090|m2|acre}} in the Rangpur Division of Bangladesh.<ref>{{cite book |first=Brendan R. |last=Whyte |year=2002 |title=Waiting for the Esquimo: an historical and documentary study of the Cooch Behar enclaves of India and Bangladesh |url=http://hdl.handle.net/11343/34051 |series=Research paper |volume=8 |publisher=The School of Anthropology, Geography and Environmental Studies, The University of Melbourne |hdl=11343/34051 |isbn=0-734-02208-5}}</ref><br />
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Because of a lack of governance and unfavourable conditions faced by residents of the enclaves, in September 2011 the governments of India and Bangladesh announced their intention to resolve the issue by means of swapping 162 enclaves, giving residents a choice of nationality.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/hope-for-indo-bangladesh-enclaves-132956 |title=Hope for Indo-Bangladesh enclaves |publisher=NDTV |date=12 September 2011 |accessdate=12 September 2011}}</ref> On 6 May 2015, India ratified the Land Boundary Agreement and agreed to cede the enclave to Bangladesh.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Mislan|first1=David Bell|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_j9bDwAAQBAJ|title=Weird IR: Deviant Cases in International Relations|last2=Streich|first2=Philip|date=2018-05-19|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-319-75556-4|pages=37–39|language=en}}</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[India–Bangladesh enclaves]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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== Further reading ==<br />
* {{cite news |last=Taylor |first=Adam |newspaper=Washington Post |title=Say goodbye to the weirdest border dispute in the world |date=1 August 2015 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/08/01/say-goodbye-to-the-weirdest-border-dispute-in-the-world/}}<br />
*Abheek Barman (23 April 2016). [https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/blogs/folk-theorem/celebrate-our-newest-voters-on-may-5-bengal-to-see-indias-newest-voters-exercise-their-franchise/ Celebrate our newest voters]. ''The'' ''Economic Times.''<br />
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