Bhola Nath Mullik Explained

Bhola Nath Mullik
Birth Place:	Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India
Occupation:	Civil servant, spymaster
Known For:	his service as the director of Intelligence Bureau

Bhola Nath Mullik was an Indian civil servant, spymaster and the second director of the Intelligence Bureau of India (IB).^{[1] [2]} He served as the director of IB from July 15, 1950, to October 9, 1964.^[3] He was known to be a hardworking official, with close contacts with the then Union government.^[4] It was reported that Mullik had been a close associate of Jawaharlal Nehru, the erstwhile Indian prime minister.^[5] It was on his advice, that Nehru ordered for the establishment of Special Frontier Force (SFF) (also known as Establishment 22) for defending against the Chinese army in the Sino-Indian War of 1962.^[6] The Government of India awarded him Padma Bhushan, the third-highest Indian civilian award, in 1964.^[7]

Publications

• B. N. Mullik (1971). My Years with Nehru: The Chinese Betrayal. Volume 1. Allied Publishers.
• B. N. Mullik (1971). My Years with Nehru: Kashmir. Volume 2. Allied Publishers.
• B. N. Mullik (1971). My Years with Nehru, 1948-1964. Volume 3. Allied Publishers.

See also

• Death of Subhas Chandra Bose
• R. N. Kao

Further reading

• Book: Rajeswar, T. V. . India : the crucial years . Harper Collins . 2016 . 9789351772866 . New Delhi . 296 . 921977922.

External links

• News: Snippets from the world of secrets . https://web.archive.org/web/20180526193144/https://www.telegraphindia.com/1151009/jsp/opinion/story_46869.jsp . dead . 26 May 2018 . Sanyal . Amitava . November 15, 2009 . The Telegraph . 2018-05-26.

Notes and References

1. Book: Anne F. Thurston. Gyalo Thondup. The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong: The Untold Story of My Struggle for Tibet. 16 April 2015. Ebury Publishing. 978-1-4481-7596-3. 141–.
2. News: A spy and a gentleman . January 3, 2003 . Kashmir Sentinel . 2018-05-26.
3. Web site: Archived copy . https://web.archive.org/web/20130816020917/http://www.bprd.nic.in/writereaddata/mainlinkFile/File1052.pdf . 2013-08-16 . dead . 2013-08-12.
4. Book: Paul Maddrell. Christopher Moran. Mark Stout, Ioanna Iordanou. Spy Chiefs: Volume 2: Intelligence Leaders in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. 1 February 2018. Georgetown University Press. 978-1-62616-523-6. 268–.
5. News: The guilty men of '62 . Sinha . S. K. . October 20, 2012 . The Asian Age . 2018-05-26 . en.
6. News: The curious case of establishment 22 . Sanyal . Amitava . 2009-11-14 . 2018-05-26 . en.
7. Web site: Padma Awards . 2018-05-17 . Padma Awards . Government of India . 2018-05-17 . 15 October 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181015000149/http://www.dashboard-padmaawards.gov.in/ . dead .