Dot.compradors

Jyoti Saraswati

Description

'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.

Preface

Acknowledgements

A Note on the Terminology

Glossary

List of Figures

A Primer: the Seven Leading Myths about the Indian IT Industry

1. Introduction

Part I: The Context

2. The Global Software Services Industry: An Overview

3. The Development of the Software Industry in India: Existing Explanations and their Shortcomings

4. The Political Economy of State Intervention and Industrial Transformation: An Analytical Framework

Part II: The Development of the Indian IT Industry

5. IT Started with a War

6. Catalytic Corruption: The Domestic Software Services Boom, 1978-1986

7. Manna from Heaven: Satellites, Optic Fibres and the Export Thrust, 1986-2000

8. Passage to India: The Giants in the Land of the Majors, 2000-2010

Part III: The Analysis

9. The Indian Mutiny: From Potential IT Superpower to Back Office of the World

10. Lessons from the Lies: What Does IT Mean?

11. Conclusion: Of Compradors and Useful Idiots

Notes

Appendices

Index

Sujets

• Information Technology
• Computers
• Industries
• Informatique
• Development studies
• Development economics
• General officer
• Political economy
• Economics
• Development
• Business
• General
• India

Informations

• Publié par: Pluto Press
• Date de parution: 06 juillet 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781849647359
• Langue: English

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