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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Eastern Bank Limited, 1909-1971

1. 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)

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/10/531/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/531/3
Title:
File 74/1915 Pt 6 'Mesopotamia: Banking Arrangements - The Eastern Bank's Branches at Mosul (+ Kermanshah). Embargo on Eastern Bank's Drafts at Aleppo'
Scope & Content:
This part mainly consists of correspondence, and India Office minutes and internal notes, relating to the Eastern Bank, including papers concerning: the desire of the Eastern Bank to open a branch at Kermanshah in Persia [Iran]; the Bank opening a branch at Mosul in Mesopotamia [Iraq]; the prohi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Dec 1918-30 Jul 1920
Extent:
1 item (79 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/516

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/516
Title:
Ext 2823/41 'Bahrain. Report of ban on export of gold & silver coinage. and subsequent smuggling.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding the imposition of an export licence system on the trade of gold and silver in the Persian Gulf region, at first to understand the flow of trade, and then to restrict it, lest gold find its way through Turkey into enemy-occupied destinations. Corresponde...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 May 1941-10 Jul 1942
Extent:
1 file (30 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/3630

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3630
Title:
Coll 29/54(1) 'Serving of an attachment order issued by the Egyptian Court on the Bahrain branch of the Eastern Bank Ltd'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns a request by the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to provide copies of a judicial document issued by the Egyptian Ministry of Justice regarding the service on the Bahrain Branch of the Eastern Bank Limited. The file is composed of correspondence between the British Embassy...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
3 Aug 1946-15 Nov 1946
Extent:
1 file (20 folios)

6. 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)

7. 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)

8. 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)

9. IOR/R/15/1/554

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/554
Title:
File 60/20 I (C 93) Imperial Bank of Iran: Bahrain, etc
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to banking in Persia, Saudi Arabia, and the Persian Gulf. The majority of the correspondence is between the British Ministry in Tehran, the Government of India, High Commissioner in Iraq (later the British Ambassador), Political Residency in Bushire, t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
22 Jan 1918-Feb 1946
Extent:
1 volume (201 folios)

10. 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)