Do the different types of financial friction have differential implications for monetary transmission in emerging economies? We investigate this question using India as the country for analysis. We adopt a New Keynesian business cycle model with bank intermediation, extend it by the Indian economy-specific features and validate with the data. The baseline model explains the co-movements of interest rates, incomplete pass-through and sluggish adjustment mechanism of the macro-financial variables for a policy interest rate shock. It identifies the collateral-constrained, financially excluded households and low proportion of savers as the primary sources of frictions causing weak monetary transmission.