Notes

Introduction

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2. Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (UK: Penguin, 2025).
3. Bhushan Patwardhan and Indu Ramchandani, Genome to Om: Evolving Journey of Modern Science to Meta-Science (Noida: BlueOne INK, 2024).

Chapter 1: Evolution of Leadership Contours

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3. Valmiki, The Ramayanam, trans. W. Buck (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976).
4. Ved Vyasa, Mahabharata, trans. C. Rajagopalachari, 64th edn (Mumbai: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 2010).
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6. ‘Mongol Culture and Religion: The Power of the Eternal Blue Sky’, History through Fiction, https://www.historythroughfiction.com/blog/mongol-culture-and-religion.
7. R. Desai and V. Pande, Shivaji: The Great Maratha (New Delhi: Harper Perennial, 2017); Setu Madhavarai Pagadi, Shivaji (New Delhi: National Book Trust, 2011); Jadunath Sarkar, Shivaji and His Times (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1920); Govind Sakharam Sardesai, Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Marathi (Pune: Varada Books, 2022).
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11. Pavan K. Varma, Adi Shankaracharya: Hinduism’s Greatest Thinker (Chennai: Tranquebar, 2018).
12. A matha is a Hindu monastery that serves as a centre for religious and philosophical learning and a residence for ascetics and monks.
13. Kandadai Seshadri, ‘Ramanuja: Social Influence of His Life and Teaching’, Economic and Political Weekly, 31 (5): 292–8.
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15. Stephanie Hodgson, ‘Hitler and Mussolini: A Comparative Analysis of the Rome-Berlin Axis 1936–1940’, E-International Relations, 29 July 2011.
16. ‘Joseph Stalin’, History Crunch, https://www.historycrunch.com/joseph-stalin.html#google_vignette.
17. Tania Branigan, ‘A Tragedy Pushed to the Shadows: The Truth about China’s Cultural Revolution’, Guardian, 19 January 2023.
18. Eijiro Hazama, ‘Unravelling the Myth of Gandhian Non-violence: Why Did Gandhi Connect His Principle of Satyāgraha with the “Hindu” Notion of Ahiṃsā?’, Modern Intellectual History, 20 (1): 116–40. Parvesh Kumar, ‘Impact of Gandhi’s Activism on Dalit Empowerment: Unravelling Complexity and Progress’, Educational Administration Theory and Practice, 30 (5): 14133–9.
19. Swami Nikhilananda, The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (Chennai: Ramakrishna Math, 2006); original in Bengali: M. Gupta, Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita (Kolkata: Kathamrita Bhavan, 1902); Max Mueller, Ramakrishna: His Life and Sayings (New Delhi: Niyogi Books, 2019); Swami Saradananda, Sri Ramakrishna, the Great Master (Chennai: Ramakrishna Math, 2011).
20. Raymond Franz, ‘The Process of Institutionalization of Christianity’, Mentes Bereanas, 22 July 2020, https://www.mentesbereanas.info/en/processofinstitutionalization/.
21. A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Bhagavad Gita as It Is (Mumbai: Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 2019).
22. ‘How Kamaraj Pioneered the Mid-Day Meal Scheme’, Madras Courier, 3 October 2023. Available online: https://madrascourier.com/biography/how-kamaraj-pioneered-the-mid-day-meal-scheme/.
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25. ‘George Stephenson’, Tees Valley Museums, https://www.teesvalleymuseums.org/object/george-stephenson/.
26. ‘Keating-Owen Act’, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating%E2%80%93Owen_Act.
27. Chris Calton, ‘Henry Ford Did More for Workers than Unions Did’, Intellectual Takeout, 7 January 2020, https://intellectualtakeout.org/2020/01/henry-ford-did-more-for-workers-than-unions-did/.
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29. M.T. Briggs and C.H. Peters, Pullman Company Archives (Chicago: The Newberry Library, 1995). Available online: https://www.newberry.org/uploads/files/PullmanGuide.pdf.
30. Andrew Carnegie, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie & the Gospel of Wealth (New Delhi: Sanage Publishing House, 2021).
31. International Labour Organisation (ILO), The World Labour Report 2000: Income Security and Social Protection in a Changing World (Geneva: International Labour Office, 2000). Available online: https://www.ilo.org/sites/default/files/wcmsp5/groups/public/%40dgreports/%40dcomm/%40publ/documents/publication/wcms_publ_9221108317_en.pdf.
32. Philip T. Hoffman, ‘Why Was It Europeans Who Conquered the World’, Journal of Economic History 72 (3). Available online: http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/Hoffman2012.pdf.
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34. Steve Novak, ‘The Story of Bethlehem Steel Ended with Its 2003 Sale. But Its Fate Was Foreseen Much Earlier’, Lehigh Valley Live, 30 April 2023.
35. K.V. Aditya Bharadwaj, ‘Why HMT Failed to Keep Pace with Time’, Hindu, 22 September 2016.
36. Julie Bosman and Michael J. de la Merced, ‘Borders’ Bankruptcy Shakes Industry’, New York Times, 16 February 2011.
37. ‘Sears: A Case Study in Business Failure’, Columbia Business School, 23 October 2018, https://business.columbia.edu/insights/chazen-global-insights/sears-case-study-business-failure.
38. ‘Dick Smith (retailer)’, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Smith_(retailer).
39. ‘Eaton’s’, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eaton%27s.
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chapter2 increasing role of technologies

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27 European Parliament, ‘EU AI Act: First Regulation on Artificial Intelligence’, European Parliament Topics, 1 June 2023. Available online: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/en/article/20230601STO93804/eu-ai-act-first-regulation-on-artificial-intelligence.

chapter3 rise of the ai phenomenon

1 ‘Deep Blue’, History, IBM, https://www.ibm.com/history/deep-blue.

2 ‘Artificial Intelligence’, Oxford Reference, https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095426960.

3 M.A. Dennis, ‘Marvin Minsky’, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 5 August 2025. Available online: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marvin-Minsky.

4 A.M. Turing, ‘Computing Machinery and Intelligence’, Mind, 49 (1950): 433–60. Available online: https://courses.cs.umbc.edu/471/papers/turing.pdf.

5 Tanya Roy, ‘The History and Evolution of Artificial Intelligence, AI’s Present and Future’, All Tech Magazine, 19 July 2023. Available online: https://alltechmagazine.com/the-evolution-of-ai/.

6 ‘The Games That Helped AI Evolve’, IBM, https://www.ibm.com/history/early-games.

7 Roy, ‘The History and Evolution of Artificial Intelligence, AI’s Present and Future’.

8 ‘What Is Automation?’, IBM, https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/automation.

9 Giuliano Giacaglia, ‘The Golden Years of AI (1956–1974)’, In Making Things Think: How AI and Deep Learning Power the Products We Use (San Francisco: Holloway, n.d.). Available online: https://www.holloway.com/g/making-things-think/sections/the-golden-years-of-ai-19561974.

10 ‘AI Winter: The Highs and Lows of Artificial Intelligence’, History of Data Science, 9 January 2021, https://www.historyofdatascience.com/ai-winter-the-highs-and-lows-of-artificial-intelligence/.

11 Michael Haenlein and Andreas Kaplan, ‘A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence: On the Past, Present, and Future of Artificial Intelligence’, California Management Review, 61 (4). Available online: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334539401_A_Brief_History_of_Artificial_Intelligence_On_the_Past_Present_and_Future_of_Artificial_Intelligence.

12 Danielle Williams, ‘We’ve Been Here Before: AI Promised Humanlike Machines in 1958’, The Conversation, 29 February 2024. Available online: https://theconversation.com/weve-been-here-before-ai-promised-humanlike-machines-in-1958-222700.

13 ‘Robots and Their Arms’, Stanford InfoLab Museum Archive, http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/voy/museum/pictures/display/1-Robot.htm.

14 ‘DEC’s XCON Expert System’, Fresno State University, https://zimmer.fresnostate.edu/~sasanr/Teaching-Material/MIS/ES/DEC’s-XCON.pdf.

15 Ben Lutkevich, ‘AI Winter’, TechTarget, 26 August 2024, https://www.techtarget.com/searchenterpriseai/definition/AI-winter.

16 E. Feigenbaum and H. Shrobe, ‘The Japanese National Fifth Generation Project: Introduction, Survey, and Evaluation’, Future Generation Computer Systems, 9: 105–17. Available online: https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:kv359wz9060/kv359wz9060.pdf.

17 Cameron Hashemi-Pour, George Lawton and Linda Tucci, ‘Business Process Automation’, TechTarget, 14 December 2023, https://www.techtarget.com/searchcio/definition/business-process-automation.

18 Tim Mucci, ‘History of Artificial Intelligence’, IBM, https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/history-of-artificial-intelligence.

19 ‘History of Speech & Voice Recognition and Transcription Software’, Dragon Medical Transcription, https://www.dragon-medical-transcription.com/history_speech_recognition.html.

20 Doug Gross, ‘Apple Introduces Siri, Web Freaks Out’, CNN, 4 October 2011. Available online: https://edition.cnn.com/2011/10/04/tech/mobile/siri-iphone-4s-skynet.

21 Margaret Boden, ed., The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990).

22 ‘A Massive Google Network Learns to Identify—Cats’, NPR, 26 June 2012, https://www.npr.org/2012/06/26/155792609/a-massive-google-network-learns-to-identify.

23 Mucci, ‘History of Artificial Intelligence’.

24 Geoffrey Hinton et al., ‘Deep Neural Networks for Acoustic Modeling in Speech Recognition: The Shared Views of Four Research Groups’, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 29 (6): 82–97. doi: 10.1109/MSP.2012.2205597. Available online: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/38131.pdf.

25 Sunny Betz, ‘7 Types of Artificial Intelligence’, Built In, https://builtin.com/artificial-intelligence/types-of-artificial-intelligence.

26 Stefan Moritz and Kate Smaje, ‘Forging the Human–Machine Alliance’, McKinsey & Company, 20 December 2022, https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/tech-forward/forging-the-human-machine-alliance.

27 Ashley Nunes, ‘Automation Doesn’t Just Create or Destroy Jobs—It Transforms Them’, Harvard Business Review, 2 November 2021. Available online: https://hbr.org/2021/11/automation-doesnt-just-create-or-destroy-jobs-it-transforms-them.

28 Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever and OpenAI, ‘Introducing OpenAI’, OpenAI, 11 December 2015, https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai/.

29 ‘DALL·E 2’, OpenAI, 6 April 2022, https://openai.com/index/dall-e-2/.

30 Kyle Bell, ‘Why Is ChatGPT So Bad at Math?’, TechCrunch, 2 October 2024, https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/02/why-is-chatgpt-so-bad-at-math/.

31 Eric Boyd, ‘ChatGPT Is Now Available in Azure OpenAI Service’, Microsoft Azure Blog, 9 March 2023, https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/chatgpt-is-now-available-in-azure-openai-service/.

32 ‘Introducing Llama 3.1: Our Most Capable Models to Date’, Meta AI Blog, 23 July 2024, https://ai.meta.com/blog/meta-llama-3-1/.

33 Hema Buduraju, ‘Google Search: Introducing AI Mode in India’, Google Blog, 24 June 2025, https://blog.google/intl/en-in/products/google-search-introducing-ai-mode-in-india/ (accessed 12 September 2025).

34 ‘Stable Diffusion Announcement’, Stability AI, 10 August 2022, https://stability.ai/news/stable-diffusion-announcement.

35 Haritha Khandabattu, ‘The 2025 Hype Cycle for Artificial Intelligence Goes Beyond GenAI’, Gartner, 8 July 2025, https://www.gartner.com/en/articles/hype-cycle-for-artificial-intelligence.

36 Priya Joi, ‘Using AI from Lab to Jab: How Did Artificial Intelligence Help Us Develop and Deliver Covid-19 Vaccines?’, Gavi, 27 February 2025, https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/using-ai-lab-jab-how-did-artificial-intelligence-help-us-develop-and-deliver-covid.

37 Guilherme Schneider, ‘The AI Wars between Nations: A New Arms Race or Catalyst for Collaboration’, Modern Diplomacy, 2 October 2023, https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2023/10/02/the-ai-wars-between-nations-a-new-arms-race-or-a-catalyst-for-collaboration/.

38 ‘Artificial Intelligence Mission’, Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser, Government of India, https://www.psa.gov.in/mission/artificial-intelligence/34.

39 ‘Discovering Education’s Future with the Rise of GenAI in India’s EdTech Landscape’, Express Computer, 27 August 2024, https://www.expresscomputer.in/guest-blogs/discovering-educations-future-with-the-rise-of-genai-in-indias-edtech-landscape/115373/.

40 ‘Amazon’s Corporate Workforce May Shrink as AI Takes Over Routine Tasks’, Reuters, 19 June 2025, https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazons-workforce-reduce-rollout-generative-ai-agents-2025-06-17/.

41 ‘The Bet That Changed Everything: Satya Nadella on AI, Leadership, and the Future of Computing’, Madrona, 12 September 2025, https://www.madrona.com/the-bet-that-changed-everything-satya-nadella-on-ai-leadership-and-the-future-of-computing/.

42 Sundar Pichai, ‘Questions, Shrugs and What Comes Next: A Quarter Century of Change’, Google Blog, 5 September 2023, https://blog.google/inside-google/message-ceo/google-25th-birthday-sundar-pichai/.

43 Google Threat Intelligence Group, ‘Adversarial Misuse of Generative AI’, Google Cloud Blog, 30 January 2025, https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/adversarial-misuse-generative-ai.

44 Sara Brown, ‘Why Neural Net Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton Is Sounding the Alarm on AI’, MIT Sloan, 23 May 2023, https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/why-neural-net-pioneer-geoffrey-hinton-sounding-alarm-ai.

45 ‘What Are AI Guardrails?’, McKinsey & Company, 14 November 2024, https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/mckinsey-explainers/what-are-ai-guardrails.

46 ‘mRNA and Artificial Intelligence for Advanced Vaccine Innovation’, Pfizer, https://www.pfizer.com/news/articles/how_a_novel_incubation_sandbox_helped_speed_up_data_analysis_in_pfizer_s_covid_19_vaccine_trial.

47 ‘Generative AI Fuels Creative Physical Product Design but Is No Magic Wand’, McKinsey & Company, 5 March 2024, https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/generative-ai-fuels-creative-physical-product-design-but-is-no-magic-wand.

48 ‘AI Chatbots in Customer Service: Can They Truly Replace Human Agents?’, Infomineo, 24 March 2024, https://infomineo.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-chatbots-in-customer-service-can-they-replace-human/.

49 Teaganne Finn and Amanda Downie, ‘Agentic AI vs Generative AI’, IBM, 2025, https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/agentic-ai-vs-generative-ai.

50 Charles Daly, ‘Klarna Turns from AI to Real-Person Customer Service’, Bloomberg, 8 May 2025. Available online: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-08/klarna-turns-from-ai-to-real-person-customer-service.

51 Bill Gates, ‘My Conversation with Sam Altman’, Unconfuse Me with Bill Gates (podcast), Gates Notes, 11 January 2024. Available online: https://www.gatesnotes.com/meet-bill/my-podcasts/reader/unconfuse-me-podcast-with-guest-sam-altman.

52 Katja Grace et al., ‘Thousands of AI Authors on the Future of AI’, AI Impacts, January 2024, https://aiimpacts.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Thousands_of_AI_authors_on_the_future_of_AI.pdf.

53 Stephen Nellis, ‘Nvidia CEO Says AI Could Pass Human Tests in Five Years’, Reuters, 2 March 2024, https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-ceo-says-ai-could-pass-human-tests-five-years-2024-03-01/.

54 Mustafa Suleyman and Michael Bhaskar, The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century’s Greatest Dilemma (London: The Bodley Head, 2023).

55 Billy Perrigo, ‘Meta’s AI Chief Yann LeCun on AGI, Open-Source, and AI Risk’, Time, 13 February 2024, https://time.com/6694432/yann-lecun-meta-ai-interview/.

56 ‘Planning for AGI and Beyond’, OpenAI, 24 February 2023, https://openai.com/index/planning-for-agi-and-beyond/.

57 ‘SLMs vs LLMs: What Are Small Language Models?’, Red Hat, 23 April 2025, https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/ai/llm-vs-slm.