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A SHORT, CRISPLY WRITTEN ACCOUNT OF THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION THAT HAS TRANSFORMED DAILY LIFE IN INDIA BY THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE NEW BJP.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 United Payments Interface (UPI), the creation of a new kind of welfare state based on digital direct-benefit transfers and inter-linked e-governance systems that brought in almost half a billion poor people who previously never had bank accounts into the financial system.This book pieces together how India created the digital revolution, using the software infrastructure loosely called ‘India Stack’, and leading to what Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called ‘India’s Techade.’ A short, crisply written primer on the subject in the context of India’s leadership of G20, this is a book for every Indian reader, for all Indians are part of this story of digital growth.