All Outputs (2)

India's intelligence culture and strategic surprises: Spying for south block (2022)
Book
Chaya, D. P. (2022). India's intelligence culture and strategic surprises: Spying for south block. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003296195

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 informat... Read More about India's intelligence culture and strategic surprises: Spying for south block.

Proximity or Sycophancy? The Relationship between Intelligence and Policy in the Nehruvian Era, 1947–64 (2022)
Journal Article
Chaya, D. P. (2022). Proximity or Sycophancy? The Relationship between Intelligence and Policy in the Nehruvian Era, 1947–64. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 45(4), 621-636. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2022.2044695

Scholars of Intelligence Studies have extensively debated the contours of an ideal relationship between intelligence services and policy making, in which agencies can maintain analytical objectivity while having a policy impact. However, this debate... Read More about Proximity or Sycophancy? The Relationship between Intelligence and Policy in the Nehruvian Era, 1947–64.