Dot. Compradors : Power and Policy in the Development of the Indian Software Industry

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saraswati, Jyoti.

Series:

IIPPE

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer software industry--Government policy--India.

Computer software industry--India--History.

Computer software industry--History--India.

Computer software industry.

Local Subjects:

Computer software industry--Government policy--India.

Computer software industry--India--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

A Note on the Terminology

Glossary

A Primer: The Seven Leading Myths about the Indian Software Industry

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 Explanationsand 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 UNINTENDED 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

Notes

Appendices

Appendix A: The Software Industry in India, by Type of Firm

Appendix B: IT Policy Formulation According to the Developmental Department Literature

Appendix C: The Internal Power Structure of NASSCOM

Appendix D: NASSCOM Executive Council, 2011-13

Appendix E: NASSCOM and the Indian State Apparatus, 2010

Appendix F: Priority Issues for Firms, NASSCOM and the State

Appendix G

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-84964-734-8