Bank of Bombay

Bank of Bombay was the second of the three presidency banks (others being the Bank of Calcutta and the Bank of Madras) of the Raj period. It was established, pursuant to a charter of the British East India Company, in the year 1868, about a decade after India's First War of Independence. The bank was headquartered in Bombay, now called Mumbai. The Bank of Bombay undertook all the normal activities which a commercial bank was expected to undertake. The Bank of Madras, in the absence of any central banking authority at that time, also conducted certain functions which are ordinarily a preserve of a central bank.

The Bank of Bombay, and two other Presidency banks, namely, the Bank of Calcutta and the Bank of Madras were amalgamated and the reorganized banking entity was named the Imperial Bank of India on 27 January 1921. The Reserve Bank of India, which is the central banking organization of India, in the year 1955, acquired a controlling interest in the Imperial Bank of India and the Imperial Bank of India was christened on 30 April 1955 as the State Bank of India.

ee also

*Indian banking

Further reading

*"THE EVOLUTION OF THE STATE BANK OF INDIA, Volume 1 — The Roots 1806-1876" by Amiya Kumar Bagchi [http://www.hindu.com/br/2007/04/03/stories/2007040300301600.htm]

References

* [http://www.rbi.org.in/scripts/pm_earlyissues.aspx Note issued by the Bank of Bombay]