The Bank of Bombay was the second of the three presidency banks (others being the
British East India Company
, on 15 April 1840.
Subsidiaries
The bank's headquarters were in
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 - 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 renamed on 30 April 1955 to the State Bank of India.
See also
Indian banking
Further reading
THE EVOLUTION OF THE STATE BANK OF INDIA, Volume 1 — The Roots 1806-1876 by Amiya Kumar Bagchi [1]
