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by KL on Jun 23, 2006 10:18 PM

5. Paranoia about maps:
I suppose the fact that Arunachal Pradesh shares lots of its borders with neighbouring countries justifies the fact why it's maps are publicly available. If you haven't forgotten, a few years back there was a rain of AK47s in West Bengal, very near to Arunachal pradesh, accidentally out of place, which were supposed to be for some other northeastern state where terrorism is being abetted by foreign (probably foreign religious ) forces. Moreover the maps available on Google earth don't show anything more than the terrain of India. They just show the rivers, water bodies, and mountains and mountain ranges. Noteven political boundaries. Also, the highest scale of map one could easily acess from any Survey of India is 1:10,000 and some maps people can easily buy from respective Survey of India office of that region. Ofcourse some are restricted maps b'se of security reasons.

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