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Policing ‘Bengali Terrorism’ in India and the World

Imperial Intelligence and Revolutionary Nationalism, 1905-1939

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Authors:
  1. Michael Silvestri

    1. History Department, Clemson University, Clemson, USA

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  • Advances research on the imperial origins of British intelligence in the interwar period
  • Shows how intelligence practices were diffused throughout the British Empire, highlighting the imperial contribution of British intelligence before the Second World War
  • Explores how the British Empire came to define anti-colonial resistance as ‘terrorism’, offering new insights into the historical roots of terrorist movements and uses of intelligence

Part of the book series: Britain and the World (BAW)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: Imperial Intelligence and a Forgotten Insurgency

    • Michael Silvestri
    Pages 1-21

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 341-362
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About this book

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 the growth of an extensive intelligence apparatus within Bengal. This intelligence expertise was in turn applied globally both to the policing of Bengali revolutionaries outside India and to other anticolonial movements which threatened the empire. The analytic framework of this study thus encompasses local events in one province of British India and the global experiences of both revolutionaries and intelligence agents. The focus is not only on the British intelligence officers who orchestrated the campaign against the revolutionaries, but also on their interactions with the Indian officers and informants who played a vital role in colonial intelligence work, as well as the perspectives of revolutionaries and their allies, ranging from elite anticolonial activists to subaltern maritime workers. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • History Department, Clemson University, Clemson, USA

    Michael Silvestri

About the author

Michael Silvestri is Associate Professor of History at Clemson University, USA. He is the author of Ireland and India: Nationalism, Empire and Memory (2009), and co-author of Britain since 1688: A Nation in the World (2014). 

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