ABSTRACT
Security threats and development differentials in contemporary India can no longer be examined in isolation. Both issues need to be inter-linked and contextualised along with historical trends and with emerging realities of contemporary India having transnational and cross-border spaces. Border creation, its disputes, the subsequent cross-border threats, and then resolving their issues in the Indian subcontinent has always remained a grave challenge, more prominently during the post-Independence period. Natural borders and boundaries created by rivers, lakes, mountains, and deserts have helped organic habitats to grow with different distinct human groups and identities; these were never meant to divide humanity, create conflicts and to bring security threats. India, as a newly-born nation in 1947, had to inherit a series of complicated border issues and creation of borderlands, which delimited the previous space for free interaction and progress, aggravated borders of irritations and uncertainties, and finally created security threats.
