There began, therefore, a curious arms-length collaboration between communist and socialist publications and the police and intelligence organisations that had persecuted them for so long. After 1938, and following the Munich ‘Pact’ which condemned Czechoslovakia to Nazi dismemberment, when the state administration finally awoke to the danger of National Socialist organisations in India, and to their Indian representatives, they could rely in the first instance mainly on the very organisations they had regarded as enemies for so long, tapping into their information networks and reading their publications. Throughout the interwar period, the British Indian administration was geared towards a war against communists and 'terrorists'.
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