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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2024

Paul M. McGarr
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King's College London
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Spying in South Asia examines the misguided and self-defeating Cold War interventions undertaken by British and American intelligence and security agencies in post-colonial India. British and American policymakers mounted intelligence operations in the Indian subcontinent on the basis of questionable, and often conflicting assumptions: that covert action could steer Indian opinion in a pro-Western direction; that British and American intelligence agencies could be insulated from Indian antipathy for colonialism and neo-colonialism; that Western intelligence support would corrode India’s relations with the Soviet Union; that controversies surrounding American intelligence practice would not cut through with the Indian public; that the subcontinent’s politicians would not employ the CIA as a lightning rod for India’s domestic travails; and that secret intelligence activity could help to arrest a decline in British and American influence in India. Today, India’s emergence as an economic titan, renewed Sino-Indian tensions, and backwash from the ‘War on Terror’, keep the subcontinent in the global headlines.

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Spying in South Asia
Britain, the United States, and India's Secret Cold War
, pp. 1 - 13
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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  • Introduction
  • Paul M. McGarr, King's College London
  • Book: Spying in South Asia
  • Online publication: 12 September 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108919630.001
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  • Introduction
  • Paul M. McGarr, King's College London
  • Book: Spying in South Asia
  • Online publication: 12 September 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108919630.001
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  • Introduction
  • Paul M. McGarr, King's College London
  • Book: Spying in South Asia
  • Online publication: 12 September 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108919630.001
Available formats
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