Reasons behind strong anti India sentiment in Bangladesh
Bangladesh (East Pakistan) was carved out of India on religious pillars in 1947. So its not true that religion has nothing to do with Indophobia or India hatred among Bangladeshis. Religion is a strong identity of Bangladeshis. Suppose India was Muslim dominated country then Bangladeshis would have no reason to be a different country because culture, language everything is almost same. I say 'almost', not 'exactly'.
Indophobia, India fear developed among Bangladeshis because of many reasons.
1 Hasina Wajid , & Awami League closeness with India only.
2. Religion is the number one of all reasons. Muslim-Hindu can fake to be friendly but in reality both are sworn enemies of each other in religious ideological point of view.
2. India shares longest border with Bangladesh. This border is not naturally formed since the creation of erst while East Pakistan was purely religious. So India has deployed a huge number of BSF jawans to check Indo-Bangladesh border. Many Bangladeshis try to cross the border on daily basis. To control border movements India adopted very strict and controversial 'shoot on sight' policy in India-Bangladesh border. Border killing were rampant in just few years ago. Now the condition has improved significantly but still many incidents are happening such as not letting cow trading / smuggling. For Bangladeshis, its cow trading, for Indians, its cow smuggling.
3. Due to geography Bangladesh depends on India for river water sharing and land port trading with Nepal and Bhutan. This is another source of disputes between India and Bangladesh.
4. Bangladesh like to say 1971 war was completely a matter between Pakistan and Bangladesh where India played a passive role but Indian version of story is different from Bangladesh's. India says it was India-Pakistan war where Mukti bahini guerrillas were helping Indian army and Razakars were helping Pakistani army. This Indian version offends many Bangladeshis because since childhood Bangladeshis are taught that 1971 war was between Bangladesh and Pakistan, not India and Pakistan. It steams hatred for India.
Source:
https://defence.pk/threads/millions...ami-league-hasina-wajid.446333/#ixzz4IbHO7hq4