TY  - BOOK
ED  - State Bank of India
ED  - State Bank of India
TI  - The evolution of the State Bank of India [5Vols]
SN  - 9780670999170 (v.1)
U1  - 332.120954  
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Penguin
KW  - Finance - India - History
KW  - State bank of India - History
KW  - Banks and banking - India - History
KW  - India - Economic conditions
N1  - Contents: v.1. The roots. 1806-1876. xxxii,1280p. ISBN: 9780670999170 --  v.2. The era of the Presidency banks, 1876-1920.  664p. ISBN: 8170366046. -- v. 3. The era of the Imperial Bank of India, 1921-1955. 674p. ISBN: 817829172X -- v. 4. The era from 1955-1980. xxx,1115p. ISBN: 9780670999064 --v. 5. The era from 1981-1996. xxx,1333p. ISBN: 9789355946676
N2  -  The origins of the State Bank of India can be traced back two hundred years to the establishment of the Bank of Calcutta. The keen interest shown by the directors of the bank in maintaining records found an echo in 1975 when R.K. Talwar, a former chairman of the State Bank, commissioned an account of the bank's evolution from its earliest days. Written by noted economist Amiya Kumar Bagchi, The Roots 1806â€"1876 , relies not only on those records but diverse other sources to provide a fascinating look into the progress of banking in the early decades of the nineteenth century. Banking in those days was
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