How are people crossing the Indian border on land?
 

I’ve seen that thousands of people have travelled through South Asia by road, crossing multiple borders.

The information I have so far tells me that it is not permitted to enter India by road on either an e-visa or a paper visa (information from the Indian Consulate and also the Indian Government website).

How are people crossing the Indian border on land?

We plan a trip next year on which we’ll visit India, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka; the 90 day limit per entry to India means that we’ll have to plan to leave and re-enter several times, and the requirement to enter India only by air (or at a few ports) means that we are going to have buy a lot of flights. We’ve already concluded that the cost of shipping our own vehicle to South Asia makes it impractical, so we currently plan to travel with a combination of hired vehicles, trains, and public transport.

The prohibition of land border crossing, couple with the fact that there are no flights between Pakistan and India means that to go (for example) from Lahore to Amritsar (about 50 km in a straight line) means flying from Lahore to Dubai and then from Dubai to Amritsar - 4000 km, with air fares to match!

From which direction do you plan to come? Or said in another way - from which country do you plan to cross into India?

India - Myanmar borders are all closed for overlanding.

Pakistan - India afaik there is only one possible border that is international and that is the Wagah border.

India to Bangladesh - I have never heard of any overlandera crossing that border.

India - Nepal has a few international borders but the country is almost a dead end as the only way out except via India is via Tibet and that border is afaik very difficult to cross as Tibet is China (occupied by China - and thus rules are strict and you need guides and heaps of paperwork) and sometimes the border is completely closed for months at a time.