India's Intelligence Culture and Strategic Surprises: Spying for South Block

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

The work looks at whether there is a distinct way in which India ‘thinks about’ and ‘does’ intelligence, and, by extension, whether this affects the prospects of it being surprised. Drawing on a combination of archival data, secondary source information and interviews with members of the Indian security and intelligence community, the book provides a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of...