[3] After the end of British colonial rule in India in 1947, the "colonial third culture" surrounding employment, which featured expatriates in superior roles, natives in subordinate roles, and little informal socialisation between the two, began to be replaced with a "co-ordinate third culture", based around the common social life of Americans working in multinational corporations and their Indian colleagues.
[5] In a break from the long tradition of older American expatriates coming to India to manage local subsidiaries of American companies, a trend began in the 2000s of younger Americans taking jobs at Indian companies, especially in the information technology sector, often at lower wages than they had previously earned in the U.S.
In 2006 there were estimated to be roughly 800 American immigrants working in high-tech companies in India.
[6][7] According to a White House press release on 26 June 2017, over 700,000 U.S. citizens reside in India.
[11] Outsourced aired on NBC during the 2010 television season, depicting an American manager at a call center in Mumbai.