“…The analyses of cash holdings of firms, more specifically the factors determining the cash holdings, have garnered sound focus in the empirical financial literature. At the global level, prior works concerning determinants of cash holdings have emphasized many facets like firms' financial constraints (Gautam et al, 2014;Denis and Sibilkov, 2009;Almeida et al, 2004),corporate governance (Chauhan et al, 2018), financial crisis (Bliss et al, 2015;Al-Najjar, 2013;Song and Lee, 2012;Campello et al, 2011;Atif et al, 2019;Cambrea et al, 2021), ownership structure (Gupta and Bedi, 2020;Moin et al, 2020;Locorotondo et al, 2014;Matta et al, 2022;Anand et al, 2012;Paskelian and Nguyen, 2010;Bhat and Bachhawat, 2005;Deloof, 2001), firm diversification (Subramaniam et al, 2011;Duchin, 2010;Tong, 2011), stock liquidity (Nyborg & Wang, 2021), capital structure (Guney et al, 2007), macro-level factors (Wang et al, 2014: Stone et al, 2018Chang and Tang, 2021), geopolitical risk (Wang et al, 2021;Kotcharin and Maneenop, 2020;Demir et al, 2019), etc from the viewpoint of the firm in general. In the Indian context, very few studies such as Maheshwari and Rao (2017), Chauhan et al (2018), Paskelian and Nguyen (2010), Anand et al (2012), Bhat and Bachhawat (2005), Saluja and Drolia (2015),…”