Indias Intelligence Culture and Strategic Surprises

This book examines India's foreign intelligence culture and strategic surprises in the 20th century.

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Dheeraj Paramesha Chaya is Assistant Professor, Department of Geopolitics and IR, Manipal Academy of Higher Education [MAHE], India. He has a PhD in Intelligence Studies from Leicester University, UK.

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This book examines India's foreign intelligence culture and strategic surprises in the 20th century.

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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