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1. IOR/L/PS/10/224

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/224
Title:
File 523/1912 Pts 1 & 2 'PERSIA: FINANCIAL SITUATION IMPERIAL BANK.'
Scope & Content:
The volume is composed of telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, financial accounts and notes, relating to the mint contract and financial position of the Imperial Bank of Persia. The discussion in the volume relates to the difficult financial position of the Imperial Bank of Persia...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912-1917
Extent:
1 volume (330 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/528

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/528
Title:
File 74/1915 Pt 1 'German War: banks at Basra'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and other India Office papers relating to banks in Basra [Basrah or Bassorah or Busreh] during the First World War. It includes papers relating to: Whether or not Basra was classed as ‘enemy territory’, and whether the London Agency of the Imperial Ottoman Bank ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Nov 1914-31 May 1917
Extent:

1 volume (204 folios)

3. 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)

4. 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)

5. 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)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/2074

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2074
Title:
Coll 6/10 'Hejaz-Nejd Affairs: Financial Situation and Internal Situation'
Scope & Content:
This volume largely consists of copies of Foreign Office correspondence, which have been forwarded by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India. The correspondence, most of which is between Foreign Office officials and either the British Minister ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Jun 1928-26 Aug 1938
Extent:
1 volume (649 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/3398A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3398A
Title:
Coll 28/4 ‘Persia Imperial Bank of; Charter &c. Liability to Persian Stamp Duty’
Scope & Content:
Papers concerning the institution, status and affairs of the Imperial Bank of Persia (Imperial Bank of Iran from 1935). Correspondence is principally exchanged between the Treasury of the British Government, the India Office, and Foreign Office. Subjects covered include: A request from the Gover...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
20 Aug 1903-17 Mar 1945
Extent:
1 file (211 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/3398B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3398B
Title:
Coll 28/4 ‘Persia – Imperial Bank of. Charter etc’
Scope & Content:
Papers and correspondence dated 1949, relating to a petition to amend the charter of the Imperial Bank of Iran, submitted to the Treasury of the British Government by the solicitors Coward, Chance & Company. The amendments to the charter include a change of name, from Imperial Bank of Iran to...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Apr 1949-6 May 1949
Extent:
1 file (21 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/3845

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3845
Title:
Coll 30/116 'Kuwait: establishment of a bank'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of letters, telegrams, memoranda, intelligence summaries, and drafts between officials on behalf of the Government of India and the officials of the Ottoman Bank, the Eastern Bank Limited and the Imperial Bank of Iran regarding the opening of a bank in Koweit [Kuwait]. In ad...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Feb 1935-23 Apr 1944
Extent:
1 file (244 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/3965A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3965A
Title:
Coll 30/221 'Banking facilities in Bahrein and Saudi-Arabia.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns proposals by various commercial banks for the extension of banking facilities in the Persian Gulf. The file particularly relates to Saudi Arabia, Bahrein [Bahrain], Dubai, Muscat and Oman, and Qatar. The India Office were keen to ensure that banking in the Persian Gulf remained...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Aug 1944-16 Apr 1948
Extent:
1 file (162 folios)