Ganguly took over the reigns of the team in 2000 at a time when Indian cricket was going through a bad phasewith batting and match-fixing scandals denting its credibility.
The speculative story was that emerging market economies are in a long-run phase of rapid catch-up with the West unencumbered by all the toxic waste of the bubble and bust of the previous decade which now mean the advanced economies will be ailing for a long time to come.
With the Humvee contract in limbo, Granite Tactical Vehicles was stuck in the research-and-development phase at this point, it amounted to tinkering while the company waited on Washington.