Not totally related to the outsourcing topic but India used to be doing pretty well in computer sciences and math before the barbarians came and messed us up, check this out:
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathemati cians/Panini.html
"Panini should be thought of as the forerunner of the modern formal language theory used to specify computer languages. The Backus Normal Form was discovered independently by John Backus in 1959, but Panini's notation is equivalent in its power to that of Backus and has many similar properties. It is remarkable to think that concepts which are fundamental to today's theoretical computer science should have their origin with an Indian genius around 2500 years ago. "
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Not totally related to the outsourcing topic but India used to be doing pretty well in computer sciences and math before the barbarians came and messed us up, check this out: http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathemati cians/Panini.html
"Panini should be thought of as the forerunner of the modern formal language theory used to specify computer languages. The Backus Normal Form was discovered independently by John Backus in 1959, but Panini's notation is equivalent in its power to that of Backus and has many similar properties. It is remarkable to think that concepts which are fundamental to today's theoretical computer science should have their origin with an Indian genius around 2500 years ago. "