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You know English, and that's a problem. Indians were used as outsourcing pump and dump monkeys by American tech companies, so the only tech industries that developed domestically in India were outsourcing firms and consultancies while American tech products were imported to fill the Indian market.
Meanwhile China remaining isolated, both financially and culturally from the West was their benefit, as it pushed their companies to develop software for their domestic market that they could later export.