Aditya Johri

Digital Payment and its Discontents: Street shops and the Indian Government’s Push for Cashless Transactions

In November 2016, the Government of India banned the vast majority of the nation’s banknotes in a move referred to as ‘demonetization’, with the stated goals of fighting corruption, terrorism, and eventually expanding digital transactions. In this study of 200 shop-keepers in Mumbai and Bengaluru we found that cash sh…