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The United States foolishly gave India its first computer science program.
No good deed goes unpunished.
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India’s first computer science program was started by the United States, under the tutelage of Scottish-Canadian-American John Kenneth Galbraith of Harvard. However, he lived long enough to regret the current situation where students from India leave to work in the United States. https://archive.li/jESJ [1] The article doesn’t clarify if he regretted the impacts on India (brain-drain), or the impact on American workers, or both.

Regarding the Kanpur Indo-American Program, which lasted for 10 years:
“In a number of areas Americans found themselves taking clear initiatives without the close collaboration with Indian colleagues which characterized most of the interactions.  

The digital computer which was brought on campus and the Computer Center was developed into a going concern almost entirely through the professional efforts of a group of American faculty” 
Excerpted from: “Education Development Center: Kanpur Indo-American Program – Final Report, AIDc-2285 (India) 1962-1972, Consortium Institutions:  California Institute of Technology; Carnegie-Mellon University; Case Western Reserve University; MIT; Ohio State University, Princeton University; Purdue University; University of California; The University of Michigan, pp. 57-58. [2]
The US seems to have sent some of its best researchers-professors to work and advise in India.

The U.S. Department of Labor filed a lawsuit- 2 days before Trump became President – against Oracle America, Inc., which “challenges Oracle’s systemic practice of favoring Asian workers in its recruiting and hiring practices for product development and other technical roles, which resulted in hiring discrimination against non-Asian applicants“. The investigation started in 2014: “Oracle has received hundreds of millions in federal government contracts.” Oracle stands accused of underpaying women, African Americans, as well as Asians. They do not tell us, however, if the better paid “caucasian” workers are connected to the owners or Israeli born CEO (Safra Catz), in some way – such as religion, ethnicity, and/or kinship ties. See: https://archive.li/scPYP

Imagine how much better American would be if the United States had poured this sort of money, energy and talent into its own impoverished areas, such as American Indian reservations, the Mississippi Delta, or Appalachia, instead of boosting the Brahmin elites of a foreign power? If Galbraith, himself, had been an American, would he have thought of sending top scientists to poor regions of the United States, rather than to India? He apparently ran into India’s upper caste and very wealthy Prime Minister Nehru in Switzerland. Nehru asked for help. A sucker is born every minute.

[1] “India-China war ‘accidental:’ Galbraith July 28, 2003 The Rediff Special/Colonel Anil Athale (retd)” https://archive.li/jESJ [2] http://csg.csail.mit.edu/Dahl/KIAPbook.pdf

At least one ungrateful, hate-filled, migrant from India (Raghu Suri) turns the truth on its head. He pretends that India created America’s IT industry, rather than that the US created India’s IT industry. Likely he doesn’t even know the truth. Raghu Suri (@RaghuSuri2): https://archive.li/7qeA4 More strangely, however, Raghu Suri claims that India built the United States, and that without them we would be a sh*thole https://archive.li/Np1DC , whereas there were almost no people from India in the United States until recent decades!

Excerpted from Wikipedia. The US helped in other fields, too:
“IIT Kanpur was established by an Act of Parliament in 1959. The institute was started in December 1959 in a room in the canteen building of the Harcourt Butler Technological Institute at Agricultural Gardens in Kanpur. In 1963, the institute moved to its present location, on the Grand Trunk Road near the locality of Kalyanpur in Kanpur district.[6] The campus was designed by Achyut Kavinde in a modernist style.

During the first ten years of its existence, a consortium of nine US universities (namely MIT, UCB, California Institute of Technology, Princeton University, Carnegie Institute of Technology, University of Michigan, Ohio State University, Case Institute of Technology and Purdue University) helped set up IIT Kanpur’s research laboratories and academic programmes under the Kanpur Indo-American Programme (KIAP).[7] The first Director of the Institute was P. K. Kelkar (after whom the Central Library was renamed in 2002).[8]

Under the guidance of economist John Kenneth Galbraith, IIT Kanpur was the first institute in India to offer Computer science education.[9][10] The earliest computer courses were started at IIT Kanpur in August 1963 on an IBM 1620 system. The initiative for computer education came from the Electrical engineering department, then under the chairmanship of Prof. H.K. Kesavan, who was concurrently the chairman of Electrical Engineering and head of the Computer Centre. Prof. Harry Huskey of the University of California, Berkeley, who preceded Kesavan, helped[11] with the computer activity at IIT-Kanpur.[12] In 1971, the institute began an independent academic program in Computer Science and Engineering, leading to M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees.[13]

In 1972 the KIAP program ended, in part because of tensions due to the U.S. support of Pakistan. Government funding was also reduced as a reaction to the sentiment that the IIT’s were contributing to the brain drain….”
“[6] “IITK History”. Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
[7] Kelkar, P.K. (17 March 2006). “IIT Kanpur — History”. IIT Kanpur. Archived from the original on 10 October 2009. Retrieved 27 May 2006.
[8] Desk, India TV News (28 March 2014). “Know IIT Kanpur’s journey, from a canteen to India’s swanky biotech centre”. http://www.indiatvnews.com.
[9] Desk, India TV News (28 March 2014). “Know IIT Kanpur’s journey, from a canteen to India’s swanky biotech centre”. http://www.indiatvnews.com.
[10] E.C. Subbarao: An Eye for Excellence, Fifty Innovative Years of IIT Kanpur; Harper Collins Publishers, India, 2008.
[11] Desk, India TV News (28 March 2014). “Know IIT Kanpur’s journey, from a canteen to India’s swanky biotech centre”. http://www.indiatvnews.com.
[12] Desk, India TV News (28 March 2014). “Know IIT Kanpur’s journey, from a canteen to India’s swanky biotech centre”. http://www.indiatvnews.com.
[13] Desk, India TV News (28 March 2014). “Know IIT Kanpur’s journey, from a canteen to India’s swanky biotech centre”. http://www.indiatvnews.com.” CC-BY-SA-3.0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institute_of_Technology_Kanpur
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ (Emphasis our own.)

The Nehru family mansions indicate that they were very, very rich. This is their personal house! Did farm-boy Galbraith enjoy India’s luxury more than American poverty? Is this a case of “The road to hell is paved with good intensions.“?

Nehru’s daughter Indira at their Anand Bhavan mansion. She later became Prime Minister (Indira Gandhi)

India’s Prime Minister Nehru, an upper caste Brahmin, came from an apparently super rich family.
His father was a lawyer who represented wealthy land owners suing each other. Thus, the wealth seems, at least indirectly, connected to exploitation of the poor. Or, perhaps, (indirectly) from the opium trade? For more hypotheses see: https://archive.li/rUvqy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motilal_Nehru Some Boston Brahmin families made or enhanced their fortunes with the opium trade – a possible Harvard connection.