Rising Elephant : The Growing Clash With India Over White Collar Jobs

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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.


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Building on a clear understanding of the myths and realities of globalization, Rising Elephant blows past the current diet of cliches that inevitably lead to alternating paroxysms of puzzlement, indignation and complacence, forging a compelling strategy to get Americans back in the game of global competition. Sheshabalaya musters an arsenal of facts and arguments to provide a powerful sketch of India's history and culture, showing how its very "Indianness" has given the country the wherewithal to not only challenge the West at its highest-value economic frontiers, but maintain an overwhelming lead over rival wannabees. India has also been quietly leveraging its fast-growing strengths to position itself on the road to world power status -- economically, technologically and militarily. For those enraptured by the Middle Kingdom, Rising Elephant provides good reasons for caution, about both the content and longevity of the China Dream. Packed with sometimes surprising findings, the reasoning is backed by rigorous research. Such an effort is crucial, given the uniqueness of white-collar jobs relocation, particularly in the uncharted context of a fast-globalizing new world.


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