Graduation Year
2026
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Politics and International Relations
Second Department
American Studies
Reader 1
Mar Golub
Reader 2
Lara Deeb
Abstract
Operation Blue Star is often memorialized as an independent action carried out by India's Congress Party. While such an understanding is not entirely historically inaccurate, it fails to account for the role played by US influence in the operation. An examination of CIA files and America's involvement in the subcontinent during the Cold War calls for a re-interpretation of Operation Blue Star, not as a solo campaign, but rather as a product of counterinsurgent and deadly exchange between the US and India.
Recommended Citation
Verma, Jannat, "MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE: OPERATION BLUE STAR & US-INDIA’S DEADLY EXCHANGE" (2026). Scripps Senior Theses. 2710.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/2710
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