SBI: A limited account

The book gives several examples of government interference in the working of the bank, despite the then finance minister's assurances to the contrary in Parliament

This book suffers from a major handicap in the form of a meticulously researched multi-volume The Evolution of the State Bank of India authored by Prof Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Abhik Ray, which was first published in 2006. The duo drew on the previously inaccessible SBI archives to detail the unique evolution of India’s premier banking institution. Arguably, it’s difficult to write anything new on SBI’s history after such a masterpiece. 

So, Vikrant Pande’s book ends up looking more like a 200-page hasty summary of  The Evolution…”. That’s still understandable, but where the book really disappoints is a failure to go