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Now doing to IT what the Japanese did to cars, India's rapid emergence as the West's back office, favorite location for white collar jobs and most recently as a hot medical center for Americans needing surgery(!) is shaking up the world.
From CBS's "60 Minutes" to the front cover of BusinessWeek, India is headline news. Not just another argument against exporting jobs to poor countries, Rising Elephant documents the surprising economic power of the world's largest democracy. Could India be the next empire? This is the early scoop on the balance of military and political power for this fast-moving phenomenon.
Ashutosh Sheshabalaya was born in India, educated in India and the US and lives in Europe. This is his first book.