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<p>Add: title. | <a href="https://en.bharatpedia.org/wiki/BP:UCB" class="extiw" title="wp:UCB">Use this bot</a>. <a href="https://en.bharatpedia.org/wiki/BP:DBUG" class="extiw" title="wp:DBUG">Report bugs</a>. | Suggested by Abductive | <a href="/w/index.php?title=Category:Use_Indian_English_from_July_2015&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Category:Use Indian English from July 2015 (page does not exist)">Category:Use Indian English from July 2015</a> | via #UCB_Category 46/1234</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Use Indian English|date=July 2015}}<br /> {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2015}}<br /> {{Infobox person<br /> | name = Narendra Chandra Dutta<br /> | image = Narendra Chandra Dutta.jpg<br /> | image_size =<br /> | caption = Narendra Chandra Dutta<br /> | native_name = নরেন্দ্রচন্দ্র দত্ত<br /> | native_name_lang = bn<br /> | birth_date = {{Birth date|1878|11|25|df=yes}}<br /> | birth_place = Kalikachchha, Tipperah, [[Bengal Presidency|Bengal]], [[British India]]<br /> | death_date = {{Death date and age|1962|4|15|1878|11|25|df=yes}}<br /> | death_place = [[Calcutta]], [[West Bengal]], India<br /> | occupation = Banker<br /> | spouse =<br /> | nationality = [[India]]n<br /> | parents = Mahesh Chandra Dutta<br /> | children = Bata Krishna Dutta<br /> }}<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Narendra Chandra Dutta&#039;&#039;&#039; ({{lang-bn|নরেন্দ্রচন্দ্র দত্ত}}) (25 November 1878 – 15 April 1962) was an [[India]]n banker, founder of Comilla Banking Corporation and later the prime mover behind the incorporation of the [[United Bank of India]].&lt;ref name=&quot;sbc&quot;&gt;{{cite encyclopedia |editor1-last=Sengupta |editor1-first=Subhodh Chandra |editor2-last=Basu |editor2-first=Anjali |encyclopedia=Samsad Bangali Charitabhidhan (Bibliographical Dictionary) |script-title=bn:নরেন্দ্রচন্দ্র দত্ত |trans-title=Narendra Chandra Dutta |language=bn |edition=4th |date=January 2002 |publisher=Shishu Sahitya Samsad |volume=Volume 1 |location=Kolkata |isbn=81-85626-65-0 |pages=247–248|title=Sansad Bangali charitabhidhan }}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> == Early life ==<br /> Dutta was born to Mahesh Chandra Dutta in Kalikachchha, in the district of Tipperah. His father died when he was only nine months old. His mother struggled to bring him up and then had a live a life of penury. He graduated in law from the [[Ripon College, Calcutta|Ripon College]] in Calcutta in 1905. He began his practice in the civil court at [[Comilla]] and soon build up a lucrative practice.<br /> <br /> == Career ==<br /> [[File:Comilla Banking Corporation advertisement 16081945.jpg|thumb|200px|An advertisement of the<br /> Comilla Banking Corporation in the Hindusthan Standard on 16 August 1945]]<br /> <br /> In 1914, Dutta founded the Comilla Banking Corporation at the suggestion of community leader Akhil Chandra Dutta with support from [[Mahesh Chandra Bhattacharya]] (1848–1944). He started the bank with a declared capital of 4,000 rupees and raised another 2,500 rupees. In order to raise the capital he sold his own house for 1,500 rupees. Initially he drew a monthly remuneration of eight rupees from the bank.<br /> <br /> Dutta did an economic survey of eastern India, and began investments in the tea industry. Through the Comilla Banking Corporation he began to issue loans to prospective investors in the tea industry for buying tea plantations and related properties.<br /> <br /> After completing his studies, Dutta&#039;s eldest son Bata Krishna Dutta returned to [[Comilla]] and joined the Comilla Banking Corporation as a trainee. After a few weeks Dutta suggested that Bata Krishna himself could run a bank himself and young Bata Krishna took up the challenge. In 1930, Bata Krishna Dutta took charge of the defunct Comilla Rice and Oil Mills Limited and established the New Standard Bank of India with an initial paid-up capital of thirty thousand rupees.&lt;ref name=&quot;mallick&quot;&gt;{{cite report |last=Mallick |first=Indrajit |date=10 January 2000 |title=A Development Banker from Bengal |pages=6–7 |publisher=Munich Personal RePEc Archive |url=http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/27729/1/MPRA_paper_27729.pdf |access-date=11 September 2011}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> In 1946, at the suggestion of [[C. D. Deshmukh|Chintaman Dwarakanath Deshmukh]], the then Governor of the [[Reserve Bank of India]], the New Standard Bank of India merged with the Comilla Banking Corporation, transferring all its assets to the latter.&lt;ref name=&quot;mallick&quot;/&gt; In 1950, Narendra Chandra Dutta along with Jyotish Chandra Das completed the merger of Comilla Banking Corporation and Bengal Central Bank and founded the United Bank of India.<br /> <br /> == See also ==<br /> * [[United Bank of India]]<br /> <br /> == References ==<br /> {{Reflist}}<br /> <br /> {{Authority control}}<br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Dutta, Narendra Chandra}}<br /> &lt;!--- Categories ---&gt;<br /> [[Category:1878 births]]<br /> [[Category:1962 deaths]]<br /> [[Category:Indian bankers]]<br /> [[Category:Businesspeople from Kolkata]]<br /> [[Category:Surendranath College alumni]]<br /> [[Category:University of Calcutta alumni]]<br /> [[Category:Bengali Hindus]]</div>

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