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	Publisher: Westland Books
	Author Nalin Mehta
	Language: English
	Pages: 175
	Cover: HARDCOVER
	9x6 inch
	Edition: 2023
	ISBN: 9789357767972
	HBL721

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About the Book This is a small book about big disruptions.

Over two decades, and across two different political regimes, the world's largest democracy combined the rise of cheap mobile phones, cheap data and a unique digital ID system to create an unprecedented revolution in digital public goods. This included the rise of path-breaking fintech systems like Unified Payments Interface (UPI), the creation of a new kind of welfare state based on digital direct benefit transfers and interlinked e-governance systems that brought almost half a billion people who never had bank accounts into the financial system.

India's Techade pieces together the story of how this digital revolution came to be. It is a crisp, yet comprehensive account of the systems, the innovators, the processes and the political will that drove the digital enterprise across India.

A must-read for anyone who wishes to understand the transformative nature of technology and its deep impact on Indian society, politics and culture.

About the Author NALIN MEHTA is Dean, School of Modern Media, UPES; President, EDGE Metaversity and Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. He has taught and held research positions at universities and institutions in Australia (ANU, La Trobe University), Singapore (NUS), Switzerland (International Olympic Museum) and India (IIM Bangalore, Shiv Nadar University).

He was previously Executive Editor, The Times of India-Online, where he led a number of Al-led tech Innovations to redefine digital media. He has also served as Managing Editor, India Today (English TV channel) and Consulting Editor, The Times of India. He is the author of five bestselling and critically acclaimed books, including India on Television (winner of the Asian Publishing Award for Best Book on Asian Media, 2009), Behind a Billion Screens (longlisted as Business Book of the Year, Tata Literature Live, 2015), Dreams of a Billion (winner of the Ekamra Sports Book of the Year, 2021, co-authored) and, most recently, The New BJP: Modi and the Remaking of the World's Largest Political Party.

Acknowledgement This book has only been possible because of the help and support of several people. Prof. Robin Jeffrey in Melbourne and Prof. Assa Doron in Canberra read multiple drafts, and their encouragement and sage advice was invaluable at every point. In Singapore, Rishabh Srivastava provided the data tools and the incisive dashboards that informed much of the analysis in this book. In Delhi, Prof. Sanjeev Singh and Sanjiv Shankaran picked up the phone at odd hours, were a solid sounding board and offered helpful suggestions on the draft. In Bengaluru, T.M. Veeraraghav provided much-needed help with interviews and pointed out errors in early drafts. Pradeep Nagarkoti and Rajiv Pundir did a lot of the field work.

Santosh Menon at Network 18 was generous with his support and advice. Many of the ideas in this book were catalysed in stimulating conversations with him on Digital India.

Introduction This is a small book about big disruptions. In the age of ChatGPT and Al, digital disruptions are often seen as synonymous with the American Silicon Valley or, more broadly, with the West. Even more so, with private companies like, say, Google or Meta. Yet, India's digital revolution is unlike any that came before. It was largely created through the actions of the State and public institutions. In a country of over a billion, it went viral on a scale that is unprecedented. It deeply disrupted the way Indians deal with money, with each other and with the government.

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