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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/R Name British Bank of Iran and the Middle East, 1889-1952

1. 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)

2. IOR/R/15/2/367

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/367
Title:
File 9/22 Opening of second bank in Bahrain: Imperial Bank of Iran
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence between the Political Resident in Bushire, the Political Agent in Bahrain and representatives of the Imperial Bank of Iran on the opening of a branch of the Imperial Bank of Iran in Bahrain. The bank in question is the second bank in Bahrain, and the new branch ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
25 Aug 1944-3 Sep 1949
Extent:
1 file (20 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/376

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/376
Title:
File 9/32 Cotton Mill for Bahrain
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain about the proposal for the establishment of a cotton mill in Bahrain by a naturalized British subject, Mr Hussein Agar Etemad. The file contains correspondence with the Advisor to the Government of Bahrain and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Nov 1946-2 Feb 1947
Extent:
1 file (60 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/381

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/381
Title:
File 9/37 Foreign exchange
Scope & Content:
The file mainly contains applications submitted for US dollar exchange for importing goods, plus letters of credit granted by the Political Agent at Bahrain. Subjects discussed within the file are an increase in the quota for imports to the ports of Kuwait, Bahrain, Dubai, Muscat and Gwadur, an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 May 1947-12 Jul 1948
Extent:
1 file (125 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/779

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/779
Title:
‘File 29/21 - III FOOD SUPPLY RICE’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence about arrangements for the purchase and shipping of rice imports mainly from African and South American countries, for consumption in Bahrain, Qatar, Dubai, Sharjah and other Trucial Coast shaikhdoms, where rice and other cereals continued to be in scarce supply ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
30 May 1948-26 Sep 1949
Extent:
1 file (358 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/1554

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1554
Title:
‘File 16/44 Holidays observed by the Bahrain Government and other local offices. and their working hours and other changes in their personnel’
Scope & Content:
Notices and memoranda from various institutions and commercial concerns in Bahrain, informing the Political Agency of office closures (in observance of Christian, Islamic, Jewish and Hindu festivals, bank holidays, and other occasions such as the King’s birthday) or changes to working hours. Not...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
25 Mar 1934-28 Dec 1950
Extent:
1 file (412 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/1577

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1577
Title:
‘File 16/65 Correspondence with the Imperial Bank of Iran, Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence with the Imperial Bank of Iran, with which the Political Agency held a number of accounts, as listed on folio 2. The correspondence is of a routine nature: branch opening hours; the opening of a Dubai branch of the bank; the issue of bank drafts ‘at par’ (face value) for official ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Dec 1944-13 May 1948
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/1580

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1580
Title:
‘File 16/68 Old and defaced currency notes & coins – Exchange of.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence exchanged between the Political Agency in Bahrain, other British officials in the Persian Gulf, and representatives of the Bahrain branches of Eastern Bank Limited and the Imperial Bank of Iran, relating to Indian rupee notes in circulation in the Gulf. The correspondence covers: ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
26 Apr 1945-30 Jun 1946
Extent:
1 file (62 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/1956

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1956
Title:
File J/39 'Protest of Bills'
Scope & Content:
This file contains a series of requests by various banks in Iran and their branches in Bahrain on legal action due to non-payment of funds by individuals to the Political Agent in Bahrain. It also includes responses by the Political Agent and forms legally acknowledging non payment.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Feb 1947-14 Dec 1950
Extent:
1 file (60 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/1979

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1979
Title:
[Un-numbered file] Export of Currency notes from BAHRAIN
Scope & Content:
The file contains letters sent by merchants, banks and companies to the Bahrain Political Agency asking the Agency to grant them export licences for the shipment of currency notes from one place to another, from one bank to another, or from one company to a bank. The main correspondents are the A...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
29 May 1947-12 Dec 1948
Extent:
1 file (64 folios)