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THE BANK C~PITALISM OF YOUNG BENGAL 95
whom are also to be found the Wiener Bank-Verein
and the Oesterreichische Creditanstalt of Austria and the
Ungarische Allegmeine Creditbank of Hungary. The
Banque Bulgare de Commerce (Bulgarian Bank of Com­
·merce) does not bear in its name any foreign association.
But all the same, the chief share-holder is the Banque de .
Paris et des Pays-Bas of France ..
It is to be noted that these "big three" of Bulgaria
together possess a share-capital of some Rs. 5,000,000,
the biggest being operated at Rs. 3,000,000 and the
smallest at some Rs. 800,000. That is, even for such
small doses of capital Bulgaria has to depend on
co-operation with foreign finance. And the people's:
confidence is enjoyed mainly by those institutions which
have foreign participation and control.
Greece, Jugoslavia, Rumania and Bulgaria,---4:hese
four regions of the Balkan complex are inhabited by some
forty million men and women. It appears, then, that,
in the main, the economico-financial structure of the:
Balkans is substantially similar to that of Bengal (nearly
forty-seven miliions).
The Banks oj Poland
In regard to the relations between foreign and indigenous
credit institutions a central European country like
Poland does not appear to be in a condition different from
that of Bengal, or for that matter, of India, in so far as
bank-capitalism and bank administraticn are concerned.
The total deposits for theeyear 1929 in all the banks.
functioning in Poland,13-some 281 in number,-came up,
13 Europiii..,he &nl{en 1931. p. 140.