In this first comprehensive history of India’s secret Cold War, Paul McGarr tells the story of Indian politicians, human rights activists, and journalists as they fought against or collaborated with members of the British and US intelligence services. The interventions of these agents have had a significant and enduring impact on the political and social fabric of South Asia.
The spectre of a ‘foreign hand’, or external intelligence activity, real and imagined, has occupied a prominent place in India’s political discourse, journalism, and cultural production. Spying in South Asia probes the nexus between intelligence and statecraft in South Asia and the relationships between agencies and governments forged to promote democracy.
McGarr asks why, in contrast to Western assumptions about surveillance, South Asians associate intelligence with covert action, grand conspiracy, and justifications for repression? In doing so, he uncovers a fifty-year battle for hearts and minds in the Indian subcontinent.
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Author | Paul M. McGarr |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Publication Date | 12/09/2024 |
| Pages | 358 |
| Edition | first |
| Size | 15×22 |
| About the Author | Dr McGarr is a Lecturer in Intelligence Studies and joined King’s College London in 2023. He holds an MA degree in International History from Royal Holloway, University of London and obtained a PhD from Royal Holloway in 2008. He held an AHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Nottingham between 2009-2011 that examined the CIA and the contested history of US foreign policy. He joined the American and Canadian Studies Department at Nottingham as Lecturer and subsequently Associate Professor in US Foreign Policy between 2011-2023. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Asiatic Society. |
| Publisher Address | info@cambridge.org |
| ISBN | 9781108919630 |
