Cell Phone Nation: How Mobile Phones Have Revolutionized Business, Politics and Ordinary Life in India (59 page)

GSM,
see
Global System for Mobile communication

Gujarat,
54
,
133
,
155

GupShup,
220

Gupta, Ranjeet,
116
–
17

Guptas,
78

handset, cost of,
141
;
see also
phone, mobile

Haneef, Muhamed,
206

Harvard Business Review
,
19

Harvard University,
43

Haryana,
204

Hastings, Warren,
23

Havas,
4

Hazratganj,
97

health,
211
–
13

Heatwole, Anneryan,
167

heliograph,
204

henna,
116
–
17

Henry
VIII,
165

Hicky, James,
23

hierarchy, social,
3
,
137
,
152
,
174
,
210

Himachal Futuristic Communications Ltd (HFCL),
46

Himachal Pradesh,
6
,
46

Himalayas,
22

Hind Swaraj
,
26

Hindi,
15
,
28
,
96
,
102
,
105
–
7
,
150
,
199
,
220
,
223

Hindu cosmology,
190
,
214

Hindu values,
196

Hindu
,
204

Hindustan Times
,
198

Holy Qur’an,
12

Home Ministry,
203

Hong Kong,
55
,
67

Horst, Heather,
10
,
31
,
122
,
182

Hutch,
75

Hutchison Whampoa,
55
,
67

Hutchison,
69
,
71
,
75
;
see also
Hutchison Whampoa

Hutchison-Essar group,
67
–
8
;
see also
Essar

Hyderabad,
217
,
222

Hyundai,
40

IBN Live,
207

Ibrahim, Mo,
3

ICICI Bank,
124
,
131

Idea,
55
,
94

IFFCO Kisan Sanchar Ltd (IKSL),
140
–
1

illiteracy,
15
,
20
,
24
–
5
,
29
,
125
,
127
,
134
,
139
,
150
,
154

IMEI number,
102
,
117
,
197
Income Tax department,
202

India Calling
,
53

India Telecom Infra Ltd (ITIL),
95

India Today
,
25
,
166
–
7
,
196

India’s Telecommunications Industry
,
40

Indian Post and Telegraphs (IP&T),
ix
,
28
,
29
,
148
,
150

Indian Telecom Industries (ITI),
92
–
3

Indonesia,
13
,
219

Indore,
204

Indus Towers,
94

industrialization,
20

‘information have-less’,
218

Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services Ltd,
95

Intelligence Bureau,
203

International Herald Tribune
,
69

International Monetary Fund (IMF),
43

iPhone,
110

Israel,
11
–
12
,
14
,
253
n; intelligence services of,
205

izzat
,
171

J. Walter Thompson (JWT),
66

Jaipur,
102

Jamaica,
11
,
31
,
122
,
182

Japan,
11
,
14
,
200
,
208
,
219
,
227
n,

Java,
12

Jensen, Robert,
119
,
122
,
144

Jews,
11

Jharkhand,
127
,
220

jihad
,
22

Journal of International Development
,
115

kabaadiwala
,
214

Kalahari Desert,
168

Kalighat
paintings,
190

Kaliyug,
190
–
1

Kannada,
139
,
263
n

Kanshi Ram,
147
–
8
,
150
,
152
–
3
,
158

Kanyakumari,
210

Karbonn,
80
,
102

Kargil,
205

Karnataka,
196
,
204
,
256
n

Karunanidhi, K.,
61

Kashmir,
205
,
210

Katz, James,
10

Kaveri River,
37

keitai
,
219

Kenya,
123
,
129

Kerala,
xii
,
22
–
3
,
95
–
6
,
118
–
19
,
120
–
3
,
132
,
144
,
196

King, Rodney,
159
,
161

Kipling, Rudyard,
204

Kochi,
96
,
118

Kolkata,
24
,
26
,
43
,
52
,
55
–
6
,
85
,
161

kotwal
,
37

Kumbakonam,
21

Kuwait,
54

Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi
,
173

La Demoiselle du téléphone
,
221

Lal, Dinesh,
188

Lamb, Sarah,
175

languages in India: number of,
139
,
160
,
194
,
217
,
219
–
20

Lava,
191

Leacock, Stephen,
125

Leone, Sunny,
191

LG,
80
–
1
,
83
,
100
,
103
–
04

Liebling, A. J.,
24

Ling, Rich,
10
,
200
,
215

literacy,
xi
,
8
,
19
–
20
,
29
,
143
,
150
,
172
,
199
,
see also
illiteracy, mobile literacy

London School of Economics,
145

London,
212

Los Angeles Times
,
194

Los Angeles,
159

‘love marriages’,
168

Love, Sex aur Dhoka
,
194

Lucknow,
21
,
81
,
96
–
8
,
100
,
150
,
154

Ludhiana,
53

machinery: ‘like a snake-hole’,
26

Madon, Shirin,
9

Madrid train bombing,
145
,
205

Magic pre-paid card,
72
–
3
;
see also
pre-paid cards and services

Mahanagar Telecom Nigam Ltd (MTNL),
33

Maharashtra,
71
,
138
–
9
,
201

Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA),
102
,
125
–
6
,
249
n

Mahe,
23

Malaysia,
11
,
56

Mallah,
176
,
181

mallahis
,
132

Manmohan Singh,
57
–
8

Manucci, Niccolao,
20
,
37

Mao Zedong,
153
,
160

Marathas,
22
,
122