Dot.compradors : power and policy in the development of the Indian software industry / Jyoti Saraswati.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-130) and index.

Why the celebrated Indian IT industry is an obstacle to an egalitarian form of development in India.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed March 12, 2020).

1 Introduction -- 1.1 Background -- 1.2 Aims -- 1.3 Structure -- Part 1 The Context -- 2 The Global Software Services Industry: An Overview -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Beneath the Tip of the IT Iceberg: The Size and Structure of the Hidden Industry -- 2.3 The Magnificent Seven: Introducing the Global Giants and the Indian Majors -- 2.4 Creative Destruction and the Development of the Industry, 1950-85 -- 2.5 Convergence and Catch-up in the Industry, 1985-2010 -- 2.6 Conclusions -- 3 The Development of the Software Industry in India: Existing Explanations and their Shortcomings -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Technological Advances -- 3.3 Intellectual Aptitude -- 3.4 Neo-liberalism -- 3.5 The Developmental Department -- 3.6 Conclusions -- 4 The Political Economy Approach to State Intervention and Industrial Transformation: An Analytical Framework -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Who and Why of Policy: The Interests Behind State Intervention -- 4.3 The Effect of Policy: A Structural Analysis -- 4.4 Conclusions -- Part 2 The Development of the Indian it Industry -- 5 IT Started with a War: The Establishment of the Indian IT Industry, 1970-78 -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The Wider Context: The State of Independence -- 5.3 Interests and Interventions: The Bombay IT Party -- 5.4 What Happened? Indian Computers and Software Exports -- 5.5 Conclusions -- 6 Catalytic Corruption: The Domestic Software Services Boom, 1978-86 -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The Wider Context: Back to Business -- The Emergency and the Return of the Old Guard -- 6.3 Interests and Interventions: Illusions of Grandeur -- 6.4 What Happened? A Positive Case of Uninetended Consequences -- 6.5 Conclusions -- 7 Manna from Heaven: Satellites, Optic Fibres and the Export Thrust, 1986-2000 -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 The Wider Context: White Goods, Brown Sahibs -- The Rise of India's Consumer Society -- 7.3 Interests and Interventions: The American Dream -- 7.4 What Happened? The Emergence of the Majors -- 7.5 Conclusions -- 8 Passage to India: The Giants in the Land of the Majors, 2000-10 -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 The Wider Context: Amongst the Believers -- The Capitalist Conversion of India -- 8.3 Interests and Interventions: Software as Soft Power -- The Rise of NASSCOM -- 8.4 What Happened? From Big Dream to Major Nightmare -- 8.5 Conclusions -- Part 3 The Analysis -- 9 The Indian Mutiny: From Potential IT Superpower to Back Office of the World -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 In India but Not of India: The Software Industry in 2020 -- 9.3 Poacher as Gamekeeper: Explaining the State's Inaction -- 9.4 Never Mind the Buzzwords: A New Agenda -- 9.5 Conclusions -- 10 Lessons and Warnings: What Does IT Mean? -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Don't Believe the Hype: The Role of IT in Development -- 10.3 Beyond Good and Evil: The Role of the State in Development -- 10.4 Golden Calf or Trojan Horse? The Role of the Software Industry in the Indian Economy -- 11 Conclusion: Of Compradors and Useful Idiots.

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