Dot compradors Power and Policy in the Development of the Indian Software Industry 1st Edition by Jyoti Saraswati ISBN 978-0745332659 074533265X

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ISBN 10:   074533265X

ISBN 13:  978-0745332659

Author: Jyoti Saraswati 

‘India Shining’ has become the brand name for a new India presented in Bollywood films, advertisements and books. A key part of this image is the software industry, held up as the symbol of prosperity and post-modernity.Opening with a primer on ‘the Seven Leading Myths about the Indian Software Industry’, Dot.compradors reveals the darker reality behind ‘India Shining’, providing a history of the industry from the 1970s to the present day. Jyoti Saraswati punctures the myth of a free-market industry by showing 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. Both a detailed case study and a wider consideration of development issues, Dot.compradors argues that the interests presently 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.

Table of contents: 

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 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

A The Software Industry in India, by Type of Firm

B IT Policy Formulation According to the Developmental Department Literature

C The Internal Power Structure of NASSCOM

D NASSCOM Executive Council, 2011-13

E NASSCOM and the Indian State Apparatus, 2010

F Priority Issues for Firms, NASSCOM and the State

G Top Offshore Destinations for Software Services

Index

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