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{{Short description|Indian intelligence officer}}
{{Infobox Officeholder
| name = Maloy Krishna Dhar
| image = File:Portrait of Maloy Krishna Dhar.jpg
| imagesize = 200px
| order = Former Joint Director of [[Intelligence Bureau (India)|Intelligence Bureau]]
| term_start =
| term_end =
| predecessor =
| successor =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1939|07|13|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Bhairab]]-[[Mymensingh]], [[East Bengal]], [[British Raj|British India]]<br>(present day [[Bangladesh]])
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2012|05|19|1939|07|13|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Delhi]], India
| profession = Spymaster
| nationality = [[Indian people|Indian]]
| alma_mater = [[University of Calcutta]]
| spouse = Sunanda Dhar
| children = 2
| caption = ''Maloy Krishna Dhar (2011)''
}}

'''Maloy Krishna Dhar''' (13 July 1939 – 19 May 2012) was an Indian intelligence officer and an author who served in the [[Intelligence Bureau (India)|Intelligence Bureau]], India's domestic intelligence agency.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Shaffer |first=Ryan |title=Indian Intelligence and the Mystery of Muhammad’s Hair |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08850607.2020.1752565 |journal=[[International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence]] |language=en |volume=34 |issue=1 |pages=97–105 |doi=10.1080/08850607.2020.1752565 |issn=0885-0607}}</ref>

== Early life and education ==
Dhar was born in Kamalpur, [[Bhairab]]-[[Mymensingh]] in [[East Bengal]], and relocated to [[West Bengal]] with his family during the [[Partition of India]]. Following his completion of a Master's degree in Bengali Literature and Language and Comparative Literature from the [[University of Calcutta]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ashrafi |first=Shah Tazrian |title=The fires of Partition in East Bengal |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/daily-star-books/news/the-fires-partition-east-bengal-1944077 |access-date=2023-07-17 |website=[[The Daily Star (Bangladesh)|The Daily Star]] |language=en}}</ref>

== Career ==
He served from 1964–1968 in the West Bengal cadre of the [[Indian Police Service]] and, in 1968, was deputed to the Intelligence Bureau, where he spent the rest of his career.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Noorani |first=A. G. |author-link=A G Noorani |editor-last=Dhar |editor-first=Maloy Krishna |title=Intelligence and the Political System |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4416397 |journal=[[Economic and Political Weekly]] |volume=40 |issue=13 |pages=1330–1333 |issn=0012-9976}}</ref>

Throughout his extensive career, he held significant positions during important periods, such as the insurgency period in [[Manipur]] and [[Nagaland]] in the early 1970s.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dhar |first=Mainak |title=My Father Maloy - a diamond on Intelligence |url=http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2012/06/my-father-maloy-diamond-on-intelligence.html |access-date=2023-07-17 |website=[[Sri Lanka Guardian]]}}</ref> He also played a role in [[Sikkim]] between 1975 and 1979, during its formal merging as a state.<ref>{{Cite web |title=If not for him, Sikkim wouldn't be a part of India |url=https://www.rediff.com/news/2007/aug/02dhar.htm |access-date=2023-07-17 |website=www.rediff.com}}</ref> Additionally, he was involved in handling sensitive operations related to counterintelligence and counterterrorism. From 1983–87, he was stationed in [[Canada]], a time marked by the increasing rise of the [[Khalistan movement]] and the [[Kanishka Bombing]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Billore |first=Paridhi |title=Book Review {{!}} Open Secrets: The Explosive Memoirs of an Indian Intelligence Officer – Center For Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS) |url=https://www.claws.in/book-review-open-secrets-the-explosive-memoirs-of-an-indian-intelligence-officer/ |access-date=2023-07-17 |website=www.claws.in |language=en-US}}</ref>

After reaching retirement age, he pursued a career as an independent writer and journalist, contributing articles to all the prominent English newspapers, specifically focusing on India's intelligence system.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Shaffer |first=Ryan |title=Decoding the Samba spy scandal:false spies, counterintelligence and military intelligence in India |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/16161262.2021.1882090 |journal=[[Journal of Intelligence History]] |language=en |volume=21 |issue=2 |pages=191–212 |doi=10.1080/16161262.2021.1882090 |issn=1616-1262}}</ref>

== Death ==
Dhar unfortunately passed away on May 19, 2012, following a month-long struggle with deteriorating health. It began with a stroke and was further complicated by renal and multi-organ failure.<ref>{{Cite web |title=An intelligence officer who wielded the pen with equal ease |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/news-archive/web/an-intelligence-officer-who-wielded-the-pen-with-equal-ease/ |access-date=2023-07-17 |website=[[The Indian Express]] |language=en}}</ref>

== Publications ==

* ''Bitter Harvest : A Saga of The Punjab (1996)''
* [[Open Secrets: India's Intelligence Unveiled|''Open Secrets: India's Intelligence Unveiled'']] ''(2005)''
* ''Fulcrum of Evil: ISI-CIA-Al Qaeda Nexus (2006)''
* ''Black Thunder: Dark Nights of Terrorism in Punjab (2009)''
* ''Train to India: Memories of Another Bengal (2009)''
* ''We the People of India: A Story of Gangland Democracy (2010)''
* ''Shakti: Real-life Stories Celebrating Women Power (2012)''
* ''The Ghost Wars of Tepantar (2012)''

== References ==
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[[Category:Indian Police Service officers]]
[[Category:Intelligence Bureau (India)]]

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