India's intelligence culture and strategic surprises: Spying for South Block

By:

Chaya, Dheeraj Paramesha

Series: Studies in intelligencePublication details: New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.Description: xvii, 287p., app., ind., 24 cm X 16 cmISBN:

978-1032282947

Subject(s):

-- intelligence service -- India -- history -- 20th century -- national security -- military science

DDC classification:

327.120954

List(s) this item appears in: New Arrivals 8 January 2024

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Content:

Introduction

Part I: India’s Foreign Intelligence and Strategic Surprises

1. Contextualising Intelligence Culture and Strategic Surprises

Part II: The Evolution of India’s Intelligence Culture

2. Kautilya’s Discourse on Secret Intelligence in the Arthashastra

3. From the Kautilyan State to the Colonial State: Transmogrification of the Ideas and Operations of Intelligence

4. The Birth of Post-Colonial Indian Intelligence Culture

Part III: Case Studies of India’s Wars

5. The Intelligence Bureau and the 1962 War: Between Mao’s Deception and Nehru’s Wishful Thinking

6. Indian Intelligence and the 1971 Indo-Pak War: The Epic of a Successful Detection and Counter-Surprise

7. Surprise on the Kargil Hilltops: Prognostication of the Irrational

Part IV: Indian Intelligence Culture in Perspective

8. Indian Intelligence Culture: An Articulation

9. Culture of Ad-hocism: Moving Beyond the Orthodox-Revisionist Dichotomy

Epilogue: Bring Back the Kautilyan State

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