Narrating a nation’s passage of survival; The Nation Declassified reveals the secret history of how India’s Prime Ministers, their closest advisers, diplomats, intelligence agencies and military led the nation through the transformation of world order in the cold war era. Uncovering thousands of pages of top secret declassified documents from Prime Minister’s Office, Ministry of External Affairs, documents related to the Department of Atomic Energy, Joint Intelligence Committee, Cabinet Secretariat R&AW Reports, private papers woven with interviews of key decision makers, atomic scientists, ex-National Security Adviser and Foreign Secretary, diplomats, Naval Admirals, Army Generals gives an intimate portrait of India’s Prime Ministers from Jawaharlal Nehru to Atal Bihari Vajpayee and the advisers they relied on. The Nation Declassified uncovers records of discussions between Indian Prime Ministers and world leaders, talks of diplomatic and defence delegations and reconstructs tightly guarded secrets of India’s strategic nuclear and space program from Homi Bhabha to the underground tests of 1998. Drawing on all the major milestones of national security history, this represents a first of its kind account of the Prime Minister’s Office along with the elusive and shadow world of the advisers by putting together insider information to reconstruct the fortunes of India in the Cold War world. The work holds new information on iconic leaders from Russia, US, China and other world leaders from South East Asia, Latin America and Middle East; thereby, adding to the global history of the Cold War. The Nation Declassified introduces India’s Cold War history to scholars, specialists and general readers of history, the archival documents draw a compelling portrait of Indian Prime Ministers, the PMO and their statecraft beginning with last two years of Jawaharlal Nehru up to first few years of Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
