Dot.compradors

Power and Policy in the Development of the Indian Software Industry

AvJyoti Saraswati

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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'India Shining' has become the brand name for a new India presented in Bollywood films, adverts and books. A key part of this image is the software industry, held up as the symbol of prosperity and post-modernity.Dot.compradors reveals the darker reality behind 'India Shining', providing a history of the industry from the 1970s to the present. Jyoti Saraswati punctures the myth of a free-market industry by revealing the role of state intervention and how vested interests and elite corruption have shaped, and continue to shape, one of the world’s most dynamic sectors. Saraswati argues that the interests attached to the software industry and the policies they are pursuing are both an impediment to the growth of local software firms and to a broader-based, more egalitarian form of development in India.

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Utgivningsdatum:2012-07-06
Mått:135 x 215 x 9 mm
Vikt:222 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:IIPPE
Antal sidor:184
Förlag:Pluto Press
ISBN:9780745332659

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Jyoti Saraswati teaches on the Business and Political Economy Program at the Stern School of Business, New York University (NYU). He is the author of Dot.compradors (Pluto, 2012) and co-editor of Beyond the Developmental State (Pluto, 2013).

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'This important book blasts open the myths about what is seen as the Indian economy's most successful sector'

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PrefaceAcknowledgementsA Note on the TerminologyGlossaryList of FiguresA Primer: the Seven Leading Myths about the Indian IT Industry1. IntroductionPart I: The Context2. The Global Software Services Industry: An Overview3. The Development of the Software Industry in India: Existing Explanations and their Shortcomings4. The Political Economy of State Intervention and Industrial Transformation: An Analytical FrameworkPart II: The Development of the Indian IT Industry 5. IT Started with a War6. Catalytic Corruption: The Domestic Software Services Boom, 1978-19867. Manna from Heaven: Satellites, Optic Fibres and the Export Thrust, 1986-20008. Passage to India: The Giants in the Land of the Majors, 2000-2010Part III: The Analysis 9. The Indian Mutiny: From Potential IT Superpower to Back Office of the World10. Lessons from the Lies: What Does IT Mean?11. Conclusion: Of Compradors and Useful IdiotsNotesAppendicesIndex