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Which bank was transformed into the state-owned State Bank of India on 1 July 1955 ?

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Imperial Bank of India

The Imperial Bank of India was formed in 1921 by merging the three Presidency Banks of Bengal, Bombay and Madras.

On the recommendation of the All India Rural Credit Survey Committee (A.D. Gorwala), Parliament passed the State Bank of India Act, 1955, and the Imperial Bank of India was converted into the State Bank of India on 1 July 1955.

State Bank of Hyderabad later became an associate of SBI and merged into it in 2017, Central Bank of India is a separate nationalised bank, and Bank of Hindustan was an early bank of the 1770s.

Hence, Imperial Bank of India.

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