Gandhi, Mahatma, 48–49

Gates, Bill, 51

GE, 15, 20–21, 111

Geertz, Clifford, 101, 115

Gellner, Ernst, 167

General Motors, 111

Gentleman’s Agreement, 70

Gereffi, Gary, 74

German green card program, 163–166

Gille, Szusa, 104

global ethnography

global connections, 104–111, 117

global forces, 104–105

global imaginations, 104–106

globalization. See also global ethnography; transnationalism

of Bangalore, 111

from below, 145–150

industrial restructuring, 146

mobility of capital, 146

of the software industry, 73–79, 110, 152, 163

Goldman, Michael, 105–106

Gupta, Rajat, 174

Hennessey, John, 51

Hewlett Packard, 13–15, 25

Hewlett, William, 13

Hoefler, Don, 11

H-1B visaSee also German green card program; immigration; L-1 visa, 75–79, 165–166

HSBC, 111

Huntington, Samuel, 126

IBM, 15, 183

IITs. See Indian Institutes of Technology

immigrant entrepreneurship. See also entrepreneurship; immigration; Indian Institutes of Technology; Indus Entrepreneurs, the

blocked mobility thesis, 27, 29

culture of Indian entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley, 27–34

explanations for higher rates of entrepreneurship among immigrants, 27–28

old boys’ networks, 32

racial prejudice, 32

reactive solidarity thesis, 29, 33

resource mobilization thesis, 29

immigration. See also census; immigrant entrepreneurship; Indian Institutes of technology

engineering faculty in the United States originally from India, 61

from India, 71

research on high skilled immigration, 73

restrictions on immigration from Asia, 70

return migration to India, 91–93