The outsourcer : the story of India's IT revolution

Dinesh C. Sharma

Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Acronyms -- Exchange Rate of Indian Rupee vis-à-vis U.S. Dollar (End-of-Year Rates) -- Introduction -- 1 India's First Computers -- 2 The Beginning of State Involvement -- 3 The Rise, Fall, and Rise of IBM -- 4 The Dawn of the Computer Age in India -- 5 Discovering a New Continent -- 6 Software Dreams Take Flight -- 7 The Transition to Offshore -- 8 Turning Geography into History -- 9 Conclusion: The Making of a Digital Nation -- Notes -- Index

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Alternative title:	Long revolution
Year of publication:	[2015]
Authors:	Sharma, Dinesh C.
Publisher:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press
Subject:	Outsourcing \| Indien \| India
Description of contents:	A history of how India became a major player in the global technology industry, mapping technological, economic, and political transformations

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (xviii, 274 pages)
Series:	History of Computing Ser. History of computing
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-240) and index Originally published as: The long revolution India's first computersThe beginning of state involvement -- The rise, fall, and rise of IBM -- The dawn of the computer age in India -- Discovering a new continent -- Software dreams take flight -- The transition to offshore -- Turning geography into history -- Conclusion: the making of a digital nation.
ISBN:	0-262-32833-X ; 978-0-262-32833-3 ; 0-262-02875-1 ; 978-0-262-02875-2
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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