British Political Intelligence and Native Spies.

“British Political Intelligence and Native Spies”. You must include the following points: why was political intelligence necessary for the British during early colonial/ colonial era? who were the native spies (background, education)? role of native spies? interesting cases? British spying systems and techniques Few things to remember when you make slides: Please don’t write too much (remember this is a PPT for a live audience and not an essay). Less text, more visuals/ video etc Please don’t read out from the slides, rather prepare a short para from which you can read out and explain. Feel free to work in groups or individually. Here are some readings that you can refer to but do go back to the class lecture to make the presentation. C. A. Bayly (1993). Knowing the Country: Empire and Information in India. Modern Asian Studies , Feb., 1993, Vol. 27, No. 1, Special Issue: How Social, Political and Cultural Information Is Collected, Defined, Used and Analyzed (Feb., 1993), pp. 3-43. (please read pp. 29-31; 35-42) Bayyly, 1996. Empire and Information. Introduction. pp. 2-3; pp. 5-9. (please see attachments) Bhattacharya, P. (2017). Meet Sarat Chandra Das: The spy who came in from the cold of Tibet and wrote a book about it. Published on Scroll. https://scroll.in/article/855541/meet-sarat-chandra-das-the-spy-who-came-in-from-the-cold-of-tibet-and-wrote-a-book-about-it Roots of the Empire (Episodes 1,2 and 3; Part 1 and 2). YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBYfpsqRCAc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slrK-xR8p80