Editors Sodhi and Bhargava present students, academics, and researchers with a collection of scholarly essays and academic papers focused on the formally established defense offset guidelines of India, and their impacts on this third-largest importer of arms and military equipment in the world. The editors have organized the twenty contributions that make up the main body of the text in five parts devoted to an overview of different perspectives, views from the Indian government and analysts, views from the global OEMs, views from the Indian private sector, and the larger context of Indian manufacturing. ManMohan S. Sodhi is a faculty member of the University of London, UK. Rajiv Bhargava is Associate Director at Munjal Institute for Global Manufacturing at ISB. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)