About the Editor/Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction, Uma Kapila1. Demonetisation Demythified, Bibek Debroy2. Making of a Mammoth Tragedy, Manmohan Singh3. Demonetisation: Pains or Gains? Nitin Desai4. Monetary Economics View of the Demonetisation, Ajay Shah5. The Demonetisation Decision: Event, Impact, Narrative and Meaning, Suyash Rai6. Will Demonetisation Lead to a Protracted Economic Slowdown, Radhika Pandey, Rajeswari Sengupta7. Demonetisation and Indian Agriculture, C.S.C. Sekhar8. On What Horizons will the Demonetisation Shock Play Out? Ajay Shah9. Demonetisation: An (un)Necessary Evil? Parthasarathi Shome10. A Big, Destructive Bang, Mihir S. Sharma11. A Bad Time for a Crisis, Ajay Shah12. Crossing the Chasm, Ila Patnaik13. Three Shades of Black, T.C.A. Srinivasa-Raghavan14. Black to White: Will it Stop Corruption? S.L. Rao15. For Demonetisation to Work, Modi must Root Out Political and Bureaucratic Corruption, Rajiv Kumar16. Towards Swaccha Chunav, Nitin Desai17. Demonetisation: The Gains vis-à-vis the Pains, M. Govinda Rao18. Demonetisation: Then, Now and Next Year, Yoginder K. Alagh19. Cashless/Digital: How Modi Changed (and Changed) Demonetisation Narrative, Praveen Chakravarty20. Legal Questions about Demonetisation: What Happens to the Assets that Back Extinguished Rupee Notes, Radhika Pandey, Bhargavi Zaveri