Chaya, Dheeraj Paramesha <br/><br/>
India's intelligence culture and strategic surprises: Spying for South Block 

 - New York:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,  2022. 
 - xvii, 287p., app., ind., 24 cm X 16 cm 
 - Studies in intelligence .
<br/><br/> Recommended by: Rasananda Panda 
<br/><br/> Content:<br/><br/>Introduction <br/><br/>Part I: India’s Foreign Intelligence and Strategic Surprises <br/><br/>1. Contextualising Intelligence Culture and Strategic Surprises <br/><br/>Part II: The Evolution of India’s Intelligence Culture <br/><br/>2. Kautilya’s Discourse on Secret Intelligence in the Arthashastra <br/><br/>3. From the Kautilyan State to the Colonial State: Transmogrification of the Ideas and Operations of Intelligence <br/><br/>4. The Birth of Post-Colonial Indian Intelligence Culture <br/><br/>Part III: Case Studies of India’s Wars <br/><br/>5. The Intelligence Bureau and the 1962 War: Between Mao’s Deception and Nehru’s Wishful Thinking <br/><br/>6. Indian Intelligence and the 1971 Indo-Pak War: The Epic of a Successful Detection and Counter-Surprise <br/><br/>7. Surprise on the Kargil Hilltops: Prognostication of the Irrational <br/><br/>Part IV: Indian Intelligence Culture in Perspective <br/><br/>8. Indian Intelligence Culture: An Articulation <br/><br/>9. Culture of Ad-hocism: Moving Beyond the Orthodox-Revisionist Dichotomy <br/><br/>Epilogue: Bring Back the Kautilyan State<br/> 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>978-1032282947 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label>--intelligence service--India--history--20th century--national security--military science
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>327.120954