01865nam a22001937a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802801170007608200180019310000240021124500590023526000710029430000290036536500080039452011710040265000120157365500620158570000240164720181127125928.0181122b        xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9788184004984  aAtlantic Publishers & Distributors (P)LTD.b;7/22,Anasri Road, Daryaganj,New Delhi-110002c;1085733d;12/11/2018  a332.10954 BAN  aTamal Bandyopadhyay  aBandhan b: the making of a bankc/Tamal Bandyopadhyay  aGurgaon, Haryana, India b: Penguin Books India Pvt. Ltd.c, 2016.  axix, 353 pages c; 22 cm  b499  aThis is the story of Bandhan, the only bank that emerged in eastern India after Independence. Founded by the son of a sweet vendor, with a mere Rs 2 lakh, the sum total of his life savings. 
On 17 June, 2015, Chandra Shekhar Ghosh stepped out of the Reserve Bank of India building in Mumbai with the much-coveted banking licence, beating some of the country's top corporate houses. This moment compensated for all the frustrations that had come along the way. A year later, Bandhan Bank was launched with 6.7 million small borrowers. So, how did Ghosh build India's biggest MFI from scratch and then, along with his team, transform it into a universal bank? Bandhan: The Making of a Bank chronicles that journey. 
This is also Ghosh's personal story-of a boy growing up in small-town Agartala struggling with poverty, but relentless in his ambition to make it big. He battles competition, hostile moneylenders, a tough economic climate and the perpetual lack of resources. Nobody in India perhaps knows better than him the psyche of a small borrower and the alchemy of doing business with the poor, profitably. This is one of India's biggest entrepreneurial stories.  aBankers  aBanks and bankingbBanks and banking -- India -- History.  aTamal Bandyopadhyay