The Silent Coup: A History of India’s Deep State

The
Silent
Coup
A History of India’s
Deep State

JOSY JOSEPH

‘Maybe Indian politicians were smarter than their peers in (other) countries and realised that the military arm is capable of morphing into a demon that can ultimately devour everything. It has been apolitical and tightly controlled, even as the rest of the security network has been manipulated over these decades to subvert the Constitution, target adversaries, create false narratives and suppress dissent. [And] because the non-military security establishment is a multi-headed hydra that seems to operate without a unified command, it is not often studied as an interconnected and complex system.’