The Case for Back-Shoring:
http://www.sandhill.com/opinion/editorial.php?id=87&page=1

Software Outsourcing Issues:
http://www.tatvasoft.com/software-outsourcing-central/outsourcing_issues.asp

The Hidden Costs of Offshore Outsourcing:
http://www.cio.com/archive/090103/money.html

What could be the best practices for outsourcing?:
http://www.linkedin.com/answers/technology/software-development/TCH_SFT/23725-1090830?browseIdx=4&sik=1173781739605

Using an Agile Software Process with Offshore Development:
http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/agileOffshore.html

7.2 Understand the offshore job market (India)

It is also a good idea to wander in offshore related forums to get a better feeling of who you are working with.

Get a view of the Indian job market and the industrialization degree it reached:

http://groups.google.com/group/grkist?hl=en

http://groups.google.com/group/lookhere?hl=en

Get a more specific view on how some engineers are recruited:

http://www.kyapoocha.com/

http://www.mywalkin.com/

You will soon notice the word "walk-in" or "walkin": Indian walkins / walk-ins