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{{Infobox company<br />
| name = Oudh Commercial Bank<br />
| type = [[Private company]]<br />
| industry = [[Banking]] <br />
| fate = Failed<br />
| foundation = {{start date |1881}}<br />
| defunct = {{end date |1958}}<br />
| location_city = [[Faizabad]]<br />
| location_country = [[India]]<br />
}}<br />
'''Oudh Commercial Bank''' or '''Awadh Commercial Bank''' was an [[India|Indian]] [[bank]] established in 1881 in [[Faizabad]] and operated until 1958 when it failed. It was the first commercial bank in India having limited liability and an entirely Indian board of directors. It was a small bank that had no branches and that served only local needs.{{sfn|Tripathi |2004|p=136}}<ref>{{cite book |last=Tripathi |first=Dwijendra |date=2004 |title=The Oxford History of Indian Business |location=New York |ISBN=9780195659689 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordhistoryofi2004trip }}</ref><br />
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==History==<br />
Before it failed it acquired the Bank of Rohilkund (or Bank of Rohilkhand), which Sir [[Yusef Ali Khan]], [[Nawab of Rampur]] (1832–1887), had promoted over the objection of local moneylenders.<ref>''Indian Journal of History of Science'', 1982, Volumes 17-18, p.112.</ref> Bank of Rohilkund was established in 1862, just after the acceptance of limited liability for banks. Bank of Rohilkund was the first promoted by a princely state; it too was a small bank.{{sfn|Tripathi |2004|p=136}}<br />
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