• Acknowledgments;
• Abbreviations;
• Chapter One: Institutions and the Future of Indian National Security by Milan Vaishnav;
Part I: Armed Forces;
• Chapter Two: The Indian Army by Ayesha Ray;
• Chapter Three: The Indian Navy by Atul Bhardwaj;
• Chapter Four: The Indian Air Force by Rahul Bhatia and Shibani Mehta;
Part II: Intelligence;
• Chapter Five: The Research and Analysis Wing by Shreyas Shende and Rudra Chaudhuri;
• Chapter Six: The Intelligence Bureau by Praveen Swami;
Part III: Internal and Border Security;
• Chapter Seven: India's Central Paramilitaries by Paul Staniland;
• Chapter Eight: The Indo-Tibetan Border Police and the Sashastra Seema Bal by Jabin T. Jacob;
• Chapter Nine: The Border Security Force by Anirudh Deshpande;
• Chapter Ten: The Assam Rifles and the Rashtriya Rifles by Raghuveer Nidumolu and Srinath Raghavan;
Part IV: Police and Investigative Agencies;
• Chapter Eleven: The Police in India by Akshay Mangla and Vineet Kapoor;
• Chapter Twelve: The Central Bureau of Investigation and the National Investigation Agency by Navneet Rajan Wasan;

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