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1. IOR/L/PS/10/176

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/176
Title:
File 1329/1910 'Persia: Imperial Bank (Seistan Branch)'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, notes, reports and accounts relating to a subsidy arranged for the Imperial Bank of Persia in May 1903. The subsidy was paid by the Government of India and related to the establishment of the Imperial Bank of Persia branch ba...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1904-1910
Extent:
1 volume (169 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/529

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/529
Title:
File 74/1915 Pt 2 'German War: Banks at Basra +c. - the Eastern Bank'
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence and other papers mostly related to the Eastern Bank being invited by the Secretary of State for India to open a branch at Basra and to conduct the banking business of the Government of India at Basra. It also includes papers relating to: the Eastern Bank offer...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Mar 1915-23 Jan 1918
Extent:

1 volume (212 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/530

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/530
Title:
File 74/1915 Pt 3 'German War: banking arrangements at Jeddah'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers - correspondence and India Office papers and internal notes - relating to banking arrangements at Jeddah. It includes papers relating to the following: The Basra branch of the Imperial Ottoman Bank applying for permission to do business with the Bank’s Jeddah Agency. The...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17 Feb 1915-3 Jul 1919
Extent:

1 volume (175 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/531

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/531
Title:
File 74/1915 Pt 4-6 'The War: Banking Arrangements in Iraq'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains papers relating to banking arrangements, mainly in Mesopotamia [Iraq]. It consists of three parts: Part 4 contains papers relating to the Imperial Ottoman Bank in Mesopotamia, mostly concerning the Baghdad branch. Part 5 contains papers relating to the extension of banking f...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1917-1921
Extent:
1 volume (354 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/3412

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3412
Title:
Coll 28/16 ‘Persia; Imperial Bank of Persia; relations with the Persian Government.’
Scope & Content:
Copies of correspondence and other papers relating to British Government officials’ response to the deteriorating state of relations between the Persian Government and the Imperial Bank of Persia, in light of the Persian Government’s imposition of restraints upon the bank (such as monopoly laws,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
15 Apr 1931-21 Nov 1935
Extent:
1 file (122 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/3465

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3465
Title:
Coll 28/59 ‘Persia. Financial Situation’
Scope & Content:
Reports on the general economic situation in Persia [Iran] as reported by staff at the British Legation in Tehran. The file includes: newspaper cuttings and typewritten extracts of articles in the Persian press (chiefly Le Messager de Teheran); budget statements issued by the Persian Government;...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
11 Aug 1925-18 Jun 1935
Extent:
1 volume (417 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/1/198

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/198
Title:
‘File T/8 C 62 Banks at Gulf Ports: Bahrain, Eastern Bank Ltd’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence concerning proposals for the opening of commercial banks to assist trade in the ports of the Arab coast of the Gulf, and in particular at Bahrain. The chief correspondent in the file is Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Zachariah Cox, Political Resident in the Persian Gu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Jun 1911-19 Aug 1918
Extent:
1 volume (24 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/1/554-555

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/554-555
Title:
File 60: Financial
Scope & Content:
There are two surviving files in the ‘Financial’ subject category. The earlier file, which is a bound volume, contains correspondence about banking in Persia, Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf, particularly the rival operations of the Eastern Bank, the Imperial Bank of Persia (later the Imperial...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
1918-1946
Extent:
2 files and volumes (205 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/18

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/18
Title:
File B/13 Eastern Bank
Scope & Content:
The letters, memoranda and other notes in the file relate to the establishment of a branch of the Eastern Bank in Bahrain. The main correspondents in the file are the Political Agent in Bahrain (chiefly Captain Percy Gordon Loch, who occupied the position from November 1916 to February 1918, and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
11 Aug 1916-8 Jun 1921
Extent:
1 file (87 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/364

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/364
Title:
File 9/16 Eastern Bank Ltd, Bahrain
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence with the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) regarding banking in Bahrain by the Eastern Bank Limited, in particular transportation and insurance of notes from India to Bahrain.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 May 1940-29 Jul 1946
Extent:
1 file (26 folios)