By Suryakant Sharma, Yojana, February 2010
India owes its spectacular success in the IT sector to the vision, scientific temperament, commitment and perseverance of many - starting from our first Prime
Minister late Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, to legendary scientists and statisticians like Dr. Homi J. Bhabha and PC Mahalanobis, right down to the Indian bureaucracy, technocracy and industry. IT is perhaps the most widely written about technology
sector in the country, but one rarely comes across literature bringing out the role of the government in developing the sector.
It is this gap that Dr Dinesh Sharma's book fills up, focusing on the government's role elaborately and lucidly. The book traces the history of India’s IT revolution, from the first generation of computers from UK/USA in the early 1960s and the decision to install a hired IBM 1401 machine in 1964.
