Amarjit Singh Dulat (born 1940) is an Indian bureaucrat former spymaster and a former special director of the Intelligence Bureau he also served as Secretary of the Research and Analysis Wing from 1999 to 2000. After retirement,he was appointed as an advisor on Jammu and Kashmir in the Prime Minister's Office and served there from January 2000 to May 2004.
Dulat (left) with his successor,former chief of R&AW,Vikram Sood.The Vice President of India,Hamid Ansari releasing the book Kashmir:The Vajpayee Years authored by Dulat in New Delhi on 21 July 2015. Also visible are Farooq Abdullah and Najeeb Jung.
He served in Kashmir as Joint Director in the Intelligence Bureau from 1988 to 1990 which was arguably the most troublesome time in the valley. His entered Kashmiri politics in 1990 through Shabir Shah,whom he called "big daddy of militants."[3][4] He then moved to Intelligence Bureau where he was promoted to the rank of Special Director. In 1999,he became chief of Research and Analysis Wing until his December 2000 retirement.[5][6]
Dulat has criticised Ajit Doval,the National Security Advisor,by calling Doval "hawkish" for his hardline position on handling border disputes with China.[8] In Dulat's book,A Life In The Shadows:A Memoir,published in 2022,a full chapter was focused on Doval strategy of "muscular power" in Kashmir.[9] In 2023,he also criticised Doval's doctrine for handling the Kashmir conflict with Pakistan.[10]
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