Policing 'Bengali Terrorism' in India and the World Imperial Intelligence and Revolutionary Nationalism, 1905-1939 /

• Main Author: Silvestri, Michael (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Britain and the World
• Subjects: Imperialism.; Asia-History.; World history.; Security, International.; Terrorism.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; History of South Asia.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; International Security Studies.

This book examines the development of imperial intelligence and policing directed against revolutionaries in the Indian province of Bengal from the first decade of the twentieth century through the beginning of the Second World War. Colonial anxieties about the 'Bengali terrorist' led to t...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction: Imperial Intelligence and a Forgotten Insurgency?
• PART ONE Policing Revolutionary Terrorism in Bengal
• 2 The ''Bomb Cult'' and ''Criminal Tribes'': Revolutionaries and the Origins of Police Intelligence in Colonial Bengal
• 3 Surveillance, Analysis and Violence: The Operations of the Bengal Police Intelligence Branch
• 4 Intelligence Failures, Militarization and Rehabilitation: The Anti-Terrorist Campaign after the Chittagong Armoury Raid
• PART TWO The Wider World
• 5 Transnational Revolutionaries and Imperial Surveillance: Bengal Revolutionary Networks Outside India
• 6 Spies, Sailors and Revolutionaries: Bengal Revolutionaries, Indian Political Intelligence and International Arms Smuggling
• 7 Intelligence Expertise and Imperial Threats: Bengal Intelligence Officers in North America, Europe and Asia
• 8 Epilogue: Bengal Intelligence Officers and the Second World War
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