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    century. The first banks were The General Bank of India‚ which started in 1786‚ and Bank of Hindustan‚ which started in 1790; both are now defunct. The oldest bank in existence in India is the State Bank of India‚ which originated in the Bank of Calcutta in June 1806‚ which almost immediately became the Bank of Bengal. This was one of the three presidency banks‚ the other two being the Bank of Bombay and the Bank of Madras‚ all three of which were established under charters from the British East

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    Subash Chandra Bose

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    The British Government in India perceived Subhash as a potential source of danger and had him arrested without any charge on October 25‚ 1924. He was sent to Alipore Jail‚ Calcutta and in January 25‚ 1925 transferred to Mandalay‚ Burma. He was released from Mandalay in May‚ 1927 due to his ill health. Upon return to Calcutta‚ Subhash was elected President of the Bengal Congress Committee on October 27‚ 1927. | Subhash was one of the few politicians who sought and worked towards Hindu-Muslim unity

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    by some administrators‚ such as Warren Hastings‚ who envisaged the Company as the successor of a great Empire‚ and saw the support of vernacular learning as only befitting that role. In 1781‚ Hastings founded the Madrasa ’Aliya‚ an institution in Calcutta for the study of Arabic and Persian languages‚ and Islamic Law. A few decades later a related perspective appeared among the governed population‚ one that was expressed by the conservative Bengali reformer Radhakanta Deb as the "duty of the Rulers

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    Advance Program in Strategic Management Project on Effective Strategies in Domestic BPO Market Project Team Members Mohammad Mohsin Chakradhar Nalam Hemant Kewalya Mohd Anwar Pasha APSM Batch 03 -1- @2010 Indian Institute of Management Calcutta APSM Project – Effective Strategies in Domestic BPO Market Table of Contents 1. 2. ABOUT THE STUDY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3 DOMESTIC BPO MARKET OVERVIEW -----------

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    The river is an important trade place. Its valley is fertile and densely populated. Some of India’s largest cities like Calcutta‚ Howrah‚ Patna‚ Benares‚ Allahabad‚ and Cawnpore are located on the river. India’s capital‚ New Delhi‚ is on one of its tributaries‚ the Jumna. The Ganges River however‚ isn’t as important commercially as it once was. By the way‚ when we stopped in Calcutta for the night‚ I was amazed by the city’s low standard

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    Derozio’s Sonnets

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    [Herny Louis Vivian Derozio was born on 18th April‚ 1809 in Calcutta‚ died on 26th December‚ 1831 and was buried in the Park Street Cemetery. His father was Portuguese and mother English. Thus he had no Indian blood in him. But he was born and brought up in India‚ he taught Indian students in an Indian college and the themes and sentiments of his poetry are purely Indian. So Derozio is‚ undoubtedly‚ an Indo-Anglian poet. During his brief but exciting life of twenty-three years he was a clerk‚ teacher

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    History of Indian Press

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    Press accounts for the prestigious growth of Indian newspapers and its significance in Indian history as well. James Augustus Hickey is considered as the "father of Indian press" as he started the first Indian newspaper from Calcutta‚ the `Bengal Gazette` or the `Calcutta General Advertise` in January 1780. In 1789‚ the first newspaper from Bombay‚ the `Bombay Herald` appeared‚ followed by the `Bombay Courier` next year. This newspaper was later amalgamated with the `Times of India` in 1861.

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    Dynamics of IR

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    EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The objective of this project is to study the dynamics of IR in SAIL‚ Bokaro Steel Plant and to analyze and reason out the possible causes for the same. Industrial Relations is the composite result of the attitudes and the approaches of the employers and the employees towards each other with regard to the planning‚ supervision‚ direction‚ and co-ordination with a minimum of human efforts and friction‚ with an animating spirit of co-operation‚ and with proper regard for the

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    Mother Teresa Essay

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    Mother Teresa: “Holiness is not a luxury of the few‚ it is a simple duty for each one of us.” - Mother Teresa of Calcutta (“Announcing the Beatification of Mother Teresa of Calcutta.” – Mother Teresa.) I have been a fan of yours for a long time‚ believed you always did extraordinary work‚ even though you were far away from Macedonia your hometown. You felt in loved while you worked in Calcutta‚ India. There are so many things I admire about you. You were a nun that had a mission‚ but you change it.

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    Qweqweq

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    `pattern books` that the bulk of the Company`s designs were carried out. Madras‚ Bombay and Calcutta were early British outposts‚ to which very early stages in British architecture in India can be traced historically. Fort William was the highest point on the Hooghly River that ships could reach. Unlike Madras and Bombay‚ however‚ principles of urban design were experimented in Calcutta. Calcutta had grown out from its position in the last decades of the eighteenth century as East India Company`s

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