About the Book: Sbi Story : Two Centuries Of Banking
From princes to peasants, musicians to masons, cement plant owners to casual
labourers—the State Bank of India (SBI) has been the bank for Indians. Widely
trusted and near-ubiquitous, the SBI has come to symbolise banking across the
length and breadth of the nation. The Presidency banks of the 1800s—the Bank of
Bengal, the Bank of Madras and the Bank of Bombay—set up by the British to
facilitate trade and the repatriation of remittances to England were its
forebears.
The SBI Story narrates the compelling circumstances that prompted the founding
of the Presidency banks, how they fared back in