This book throws ample light on a sweeping and scintillating canvas of the emerging issues in Indian banking. This book is a useful read for the researchers, teachers and policy makers in the country as it sheds new lights on how to assess the performance and reality checks of the objectives of bank nationalization initiated fifty years ago.

Contents: 1. Performance of Indian Banks since 1990s: A Non-parametric Super Efficiency Analysis. 2. Impact of Banking Sector Reforms on Indian Agriculture. 3. Banking Crises with Special Reference to India. 4. Systemic Risk Management and Macro Prudential Approach to Regulation- How Important are They for India? 5. Is there a Causal Coupling between Financial Sector Development and Economic Growth in India -- A Revisit after Two and a Half Decades. 6. A Directional Distance Function Based Profit Frontier of Public Sector Banks without Price Data. 7. An Alternative to the IS-LM Model: Incorporation of Banks. 8. District Credit Concentrations and Inequality in West Bengal: Bank Nationalization and Reform Perspectives. 9. Micro-credit. 10. Repayment Institutions and Rural Development: A Case Study in Hoogly District of West Bengal and Designing the Architecture of IFRS in the Banking Sector: A Study of Kolkata Region.