ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that intelligence gathering on Nazis and Fascists in India relied heavily on leftist networks. One of the sources British administrators relied upon to find the fascists in India and in the Bombay presidency in particular was the Bombay Sentinel, edited by the British journalist Benjamin Guy Horniman. By 1939, the colonial state, drawing on its own intelligence networks, on eavesdropping on the left, and on imperial, metropolitan and European intelligence, all of which began to be collated in the anticipation of a general world war, had a reasonably accurate picture of fascist and Nazi networks and organisations, their Indian collaborators, and the potential for subversive activity that existed. Many of the details from Abbass articles found their way directly into the surveillance concerns of the government. Nazism and generic fascism were not in the categories of danger for much of the time.
