India's advancements to technology contribute to its superpower status

The argument

India is continuously making new improvements to modern technology, and the concentration of that progress in software is what gives it strategic weight. Software capability is not confined to one sector: it is the input on which finance, logistics, manufacturing, communications and public administration all now depend. A country that supplies it is embedded in the operations of economies far beyond its own borders. That embedding shows in how international companies behave. India is often chosen as the place to introduce a product to a new market — a decision reflecting both the size of that market and the presence of the technical capacity needed to build, adapt and support what is being launched. Its developed, urban cities function as hubs for new technology and growth, concentrating skills, capital and infrastructure densely enough to sustain further development under their own momentum. Proponents of this position also point to India's standing in national data security and infrastructure, which they describe as world-leading and as carrying the potential for large investments. The significance attached to this is that data infrastructure is where economic activity and national security overlap. A state others rely on for it holds a form of leverage that does not depend on military reach at all. The domestic consequences reinforce the international ones. Developing technology is beneficial to all of India because it creates more opportunities for international business and increases wealth domestically, and rising domestic wealth in turn funds the education, research and infrastructure that sustain the technological advantage. Each strengthens the other. Superpower status, on this argument, rests on holding capabilities other states cannot do without. India's technological advancement gives it exactly that kind of indispensability, which is why India is a global superpower.

Premises

Counter-arguments

India does not qualify to be a global superpower based on its advanced technology. Even though the country's developments to software technology have pushed the world ahead, of the population still lives without clean water, electricity, or toilets. Until India is able to develop their entire country, they cannot be considered a global superpower.

Rejecting the premises

[Rejecting P3] India has other domestic issues that lower the quality of life for some of its citizens.