The Rann of Kutch Arbitration

In: American journal of international law: AJIL, Band 65, Heft 2, S. 346-357

Abstract

The boundary dispute between India and Pakistan in the Rann of Kutch case is one of the major instances of international arbitration in the postwar period.The object of the ad hoc Tribunal was to determine a sector of the boundary between India and Pakistan in the southwestern region of the Indian subcontinent between what in British times was Sind, now forming part of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, and the State of Kutch and other Native Indian States, which now form part of the Province of Gujarat in the Republic of India. The length of the boundary eventually established by the Tribunal was about 255 miles. The disputed territory, the area of which has been estimated to be 3,500 square miles, consisted for the most part of a portion of a tract known as the Great Rann of Kutch, or the Rann.