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| name = The Bank of Mirzapore (1835)<br />
| type = [[Private company]]<br />
| industry = [[Financing]]<br />
| fate = Liquidated<br />
| foundation = {{Start date|1835|04|01|df=yes}}<br />
| founder = Mr. Bathurst<br />
| defunct = {{End date|df=yes|1837|03|31}}<br />
| location_city = [[Mirzapur]]<br />
| location_country = [[India]]<br />
| locations = <br />
| area_served = [[India]]<br />
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| products = [[Deposit (finance)|Deposits]], [[Personal banking]]<br />
| services = [[Banking]], [[Trade Finance]]<br />
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The '''Bank of Mirzapore (1835)''' was a bank founded in the year 1835 in [[Company rule in India|British India]]. The bank was the [[List of oldest banks in India|seventeenth oldest bank in India]].<ref name="auto1">{{cite web |title=Reserve Bank of India - Museum |url=https://rbi.org.in/scripts/ms_banks.aspx |website=rbi.org.in}}</ref> It was liquidated in 1937.<br />
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== History ==<br />
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=== Founding === <br />
The bank was founded in 1835 in [[Mirzapur]] by a Mr. Bathurst, a businessman from [[England]] who had arrived in India with a hope of striking it big in the banking industry.<ref name=bankindia>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.195574/page/n213/mode/2upt |title = Banking in India |page=213 |last=Cooke |first=Northcote Chas |year = 1863}}</ref><br />
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The bank printed its own notes and achieved a modest level of success in the bill discounting of its notes.<ref name=bankindia /><br />
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=== Management ===<br />
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The bank was known for its punctuality and it soon gained the confidence of merchants and traders of [[Calcutta]] who came to rely on it for their banking needs. The owner of the bank Mr. Bathurst was able to build a large house in [[Mirzapur]] due to the success of his bank.<ref name=bankindia /><br />
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=== Final Years ===<br />
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The bank faced a lot of competition from the [[Bank of Calcutta]] which had opened at around the same time and enjoyed the patronage of the [[East India Company]]. By 1837, the Bank of Mirzapore was unable to scale up its operations and was not able to compete with the [[Bank of Calcutta]]. The Bank of Mirzapore was finally liquidate in 1937.<ref name=bankindia /><br />
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== Legacy ==<br />
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The bank is notable for being the [[List of oldest banks in India|seventeenth oldest bank in India]].<ref name="auto1"/><br />
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==See also==<br />
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{{Portal|Banks}}<br />
*[[Indian banking]]<br />
*[[List of banks in India]]<br />
*[[List of oldest banks in India]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [https://rbi.org.in/scripts/ms_banks.aspx Oldest Banks in India]<br />
* [https://www.mintageworld.com/note/dynasty/32/ Banking in India]<br />
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