• The Calcutta Bank was a bank founded in the year 1824 in British India. The bank was the twelfth oldest bank in India. The bank was merged with The Commercial...
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  • merged with The Calcutta Bank (1824) to form The Union Bank (1828) in 1828. Further, The Union Bank itself became defunct in 1848. The bank was established...
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  • founded in 1770. The oldest bank still in operation is the State Bank of India, whose origins can be traced back to the Bank of Calcutta. It was founded...
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    HDFC Bank, and ICICI Bank as Domestic Systemically Important Banks (D-SIBs), which are often referred to as banks that are “too big to fail”. The Industrial...
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  • Lakshmi Vilas Bank was an Indian private sector bank established in 1926 in Karur, Tamil Nadu. As of November 2020[update], the bank had 566 branches in...
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    Calcutta (Kolkata). It was built during the early years of Britain's administration of Bengal. It sits on the eastern banks of the River Hooghly, the...
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  • Bank, later General Bank of India (1786–91); The Commercial Bank (1819); The Calcutta Bank (1824); The Union Bank (1828); The Government Savings Bank...
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  • (formerly Calcutta) was a colonial city. The British East India Company developed Calcutta as a village by establishing an artificial riverine port in the 18th...
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    Netherlands Trading Society (category Banks established in 1824)
    The Netherlands Trading Society (Dutch: Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij N.V. or NHM) was a Dutch trading and financial company, established in 1824...
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    established the Union Bank of Calcutta in 1829. Parker's mother was a famous Covent Garden Theatre dancer and in his youth he played violin at the playhouse. He...
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    Job Charnock (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    was an English administrator with the East India Company. He is commonly regarded as the founder of the city of Calcutta (now Kolkata); however, this view...
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  • August 1824). In August 1817, Riley was appointed to be a member of the Governor's Court. In February 1818, he was elected as a Director of the Bank of New...
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    Frans Balthazar Solvyns (category 1824 deaths)
    Calcutta An Early Portrayal of the Sikhs Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr. A Portrait of the Hindus: Balthazar Solvyns & the European Image of India 1760-1824...
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  • Battle of Ramu (category 1824 in Asia)
    The Battle of Ramu, also known in Burmese as ပန်းဝါတိုက်ပွဲ fought in May 1824, was one of the major opening battles of the First Anglo-Burmese War. On...
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    James Prinsep (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    assay master at the Royal Mint in London (1818–19). Prinsep found a position as an assay master at the Calcutta mint and reached Calcutta along with his...
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    Jibanananda Das (category Academic staff of the University of Calcutta)
    English literature at Presidency College, Kolkata and earned his MA from Calcutta University. He had a troubling career and suffered financial hardship throughout...
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    telegraph networks in Russia. In 1867 Siemens completed the monumental Indo-European (Calcutta to London) telegraph line and in 1870 a transatlantic communications...
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    Starbuck Island (category Pacific islands claimed under the Guano Islands Act)
    Hercules, sighted the island in 1819 while sailing from South America to Calcutta, India. Soon after his arrival a local newspaper, The Calcutta Journal (or...
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    William Farquhar (category Governors of the Straits Settlements)
    Bencoolen and the East India Company in Calcutta were so poor that for more than three years Singapore developed on her own with Farquhar at the helm. On 9...
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    Madras Presidency (category Pages using infobox country or infobox former country with the flag caption or type parameters)
    Karur Vysya Bank, Catholic Syrian Bank, Karnataka Bank, Bank of Chettinad, Andhra Bank, Vysya Bank, Vijaya Bank, Indian Overseas Bank and the Bank of Madura...
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  • The Regulating Act of 1773 created the office with the title of Governor-General of Presidency of Fort William, or Governor-General of Bengal to be appointed...
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    called the Bengal Hockey Association and used to be held on natural grass at the Mohun Bagan ground on the Maidan in Kolkata (earlier called Calcutta) in...
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    residence. As per the records of the Bishop of Calcutta (now Kolkata), Reginald Heber visited Shibnibas during his journey to Dacca in 1824. At that time...
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    ingress into Assam in 1824 during the First Anglo-Burmese War. The Assamese history has been derived from multiple sources. The Ahom kingdom of medieval...
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    of the Calcutta High Court); The Bengal Club 1927–1970, a book by R.I. Macalpine (former officer of the Imperial Forest Service); A History of The Bengal...
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  • William Paxton (British businessman) (category 1824 deaths)
    Sir William Paxton (1744−1824) was a Scottish-born sailor, a businessman and the Welsh Member of Parliament for Carmarthen. He was instrumental in developing...
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    British Raj (redirect from The Raj)
    in the imperial government in London, in the central government in Calcutta, and in the provincial governments in the presidencies (and later in the provinces)...
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    Oriental Club (category 1824 establishments in England)
    The Oriental Club in London is an exclusive Private Members’ Club established in 1824. Charles Graves describes it as fine in quality as White's but with...
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  • account of the native state of manipur. The Superintendent of Government Press,Calcutta. p. 74. Singh, K. M. (Karam Manimohan) (1991). History of the Christian...
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    Roorkee (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    1824 when the British occupied it by defeating Vijay Singh Gujjar. Before 1840, the city was a tiny hamlet consisting of mud huts on the banks of the...
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