Manas Publications, 2000. — 450 p. Pakistan aided and inspired militancy had reached full blown proportions in the valley in the beginning of 1990. Serious efforts were being made by Pakistan to enlarge the area of disturbances and the arc of militancy, into the border areas. The book chronicles how this difficult objective was achieved. With over 200 kms. long Line of Control...
Routledge, 2022. — 307 p. 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...
Rupa Publications India, 2017. — 224 p. This book is based on EPIC Television’s popular show by the same name—‘Adrishya: True Stories of Indian Spies’. It features 10 heroic stories of the greatest Indian spies from the times of the Mahabharata to the last century, written by historians/ experts/ lecturer of that specified time period.
Bloomsbury, 2019. — 216 p. Somewhere deep in the archives of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) in the heart of New Delhi lies a set of papers that researchers and historians interested in recording the history of Indian intelligence, would love to get their hands on. Alas, those documents-transcripts of tape-recorded conversations with RN Kao, the legendary spy...
Routledge, 2014. — 234 p. This book, based on extensive field research, examines the Indian state’s response to the multiple insurgencies that have occurred since independence in 1947. In reacting to these various insurgencies, the Indian state has employed a combined approach of force, dialogue, accommodation of ethnic and minority aspirations and, overtime, the state has...
Toronto: James Lorimer & Company, 1989. — 162 p. The authors define Soft Target as "an espionage term used for any country, institution or group of people very easy to penetrate and manipulate for subversive purposes" and argue that the Canadian Sikh community was a "Soft Target" of a covert operation by the Indian government during the 1980s. The Indian intelligence agencies...
VIJ Books, 2013. — 204 p. Employment till now of our nascent Special Forces have been analyzed including whether our Special Forces have actually been employed or used as Special Forces or primarily used in counter insurgency operations for which we have any number of other units available. The book brings out whether a rare resource like Special Forces should or should not be...
Vibhatsu, 2023. — 228 p. Triggered by the US-backed Pakistani junta's brutal measures against the Bengalis, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman proclaimed the independence of East Pakistan on 26 March 1971. They needed the world's support, and India was their first ally. The Border Security Force (BSF), an elite Indian force, was only five years old at the time and became central to India's...
Konark Publishers, 1994. — 209 p. Articles on Indian Space Research Organisation espionage. The book Spies from Space: The Isro Frame-up detailed how the real traitors in the Isro espionage case were CIA moles in India’s Intelligence Bureau.
Kalpaz Publications, 2007. — 295 p. In India, the system of espionage is as old as the Rigveda. It has developed into a sophisticated political art. 'Spies are the eyes of Kings' is a proverbial saying current among the people from time immemorial. In her work, the author has emphasised on the existence of spy system from the early vedic period. The spies seem to have been...
Harper Collins, 2019. — 256 p. In April 1971, the Indian Navy's Directorate of Naval Intelligence set up a covert maritime warfare unit - Naval Commando Operations (X) (NCO). This black unit's existence was known to very few even within the navy. Its covert operation aimed at disrupting the maritime commerce lines that sustained the Pakistan Army in its eastern province. Over...
Vij Books, 2014. — 272 p. This book covers a vast canvas historically as regards Indian Intelligence, and gives an adequate insight into the functioning of the important intelligence agencies of the world. The author has analysed the current functioning of Indian Intelligence agencies in great detail, their drawbacks in the structure and coordination and has come out with some...
Harper Collins, 2020. — 295 p. The author, a former Special Secretary of India's external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), examines a series of interconnected events that led to the rise of the Khalistan movement, Operation Blue Star, the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984 and the anti-Sikh violence unleashed thereafter. With a...
SAGE Publications India, 2019. — 217 p. An infamous espionage case took the country by storm in 1994 and destroyed the lives and careers of many people. It has finally been put to rest after 25 years. The main accused, Nambi Narayanan, was vindicated and in compliance with the Supreme Court's order, received Rs50 lakh compensation from the Kerala Government. He was also awarded...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. — 298 p. Saffron terrorism. Is it a fact? Or, is this a myth? After all, do we know enough? The shocking blasts of Malegaon and Samjhauta were projected as 'saffron terrorism'. A new theory, terrorist attacks were tainted as such till, a few years later, Kasab's confession offered solid proof of Pakistan's role in the 26/11 attacks. Though the...
New Delhi: Manas Publications, 2014. — 543 p. — ISBN 978-81-7049-474-4. A History of India's Research and Analysis Wing. R.N. Kao: Founder of R&AW Formation of IB and R&AW Rebellion of Sheikh Abdullah Sabotage of 'Kashmir Princess' Creation of Ghana Intelligence War of China Pakistan War-1965 Liberation of Bangladesh Merger of Sikkim Assassination of Sheikh Mujib Emergency and...
Westland Publications, 2020. — 384 p. The Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), India’s shadowy external intelligence agency, is one of the country’s least understood institutions—at least in part by design. Perhaps fittingly for a spy agency, there is very little information about RAW in the public domain. What is this organisation, its structure, its role and vision? Why was it...
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