Question

The line that demarcates India and the ________ is the McMahon Line.
A.China
B.Bangladesh
C.Pakistan
D.Sri Lanka

Answer 1

Hint: The McMahon line is named after the British colonial administrator Sir Henry McMahon who proposed this demarcation during the 1914 Simla Convention.

Complete answer: Option A: is correct. The McMahon Line is the demarcation between Tibet and Arunachal Pradesh in North East India. India regards its interpretation of the McMahon Line as the legal national border with China. China, on the other hand, rejects the Simla Accord of 1914 and the McMahon Line, contending that Tibet was not a sovereign state and therefore did not have the power to conclude treaties.
Option B: is incorrect. The India-Bangladesh border is locally known as the International Border or IB. It stretches over 4096 km and is present in the Indian states Assam, Tripura, Mizoram, Meghalaya and West Bengal. It is based on the Radcliffe Line which was the demarcation created during the partition between India and Pakistan in British provinces of Punjab and Bengal.
Option C: is incorrect. The India-Pakistan border is also locally known as the International border. The north end of it is the Line of Control between the disputed territories of Indian-administered Kashmir and Pakistani-administered Kashmir. The south end of the border is the disputed territory of Sir Creek located in the Rann of Kutch between the Indian state of Gujarat and Pakistani province of Sindh.
Option D: is incorrect. India does not share a boundary with Sri Lanka but the Adam’s Bridge or Rama Setu, a chain of limestone shoals between the Rameswaram Island off the coast of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and the Mannar Island off the coast of north-west Sri Lanka is considered as a former connection between India and Sri Lanka.

Hence, The correct answer is Option A.

Note: Sir McMahon was the foreign secretary of British India at the time and the chief negotiator at the Simla Convention. The McMahon line stretches over 890 km.