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11. 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)

12. IOR/R/15/2/371

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/371
Title:
File 9/26 India and Persian Gulf Bank Limited
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain concerning the proposed opening of a bank called Indian and Persian Gulf Bank Ltd with Iraqi capital, headquarters in Karachi and branches at Kuwait, Dubai and Muscat. There is a letter in Arabic with English t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
15 Jun 1945-8 Dec 1946
Extent:
1 file (37 folios)

13. IOR/R/15/2/372

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/372
Title:
File 9/27 Establishment of Imperial Bank of Iran on the Trucial Coast
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain concerning the establishment of branches of the Imperial Bank of Iran at Dubai and Muscat. The file contains documents in Arabic and English: two copies (one drafted in 1941) of the banking agreement between Sh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Dec 1945-2 Mar 1949
Extent:
1 file (88 folios)

14. IOR/R/15/2/379

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/379
Title:
File 9/35 Eastern Bank Branch in Qatar
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Political Agency at Bahrain, the Political Residency in the Gulf, the India Office and the Eastern Bank Limited concerning the opening of a branch of the Bank in Qatar in 1947. The file also contains some correspondence with Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Apr 1947-4 Sep 1950
Extent:
1 file (57 folios)

15. IOR/R/15/2/1503

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1503
Title:
‘Miscellaneous 16/10 Eastern Bank Ltd: Correspondence with ––’
Scope & Content:
Routine correspondence exchanged between the Bahrain Political Agency and successive managers of the Eastern Bank Limited in Bahrain (H Barden, D Ham, M Gunn, C W F Skrimshire). Correspondence received from the Eastern Bank includes: notices of credits to the Agency current account; notices of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
15 May 1926-31 Dec 1940
Extent:
1 file (259 folios)

16. IOR/R/15/2/1504

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1504
Title:
‘File 16/10 II Correspondence with Eastern Bank Ltd. Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, chiefly of a routine nature, exchanged between the Political Agency in Bahrain and the Bahrain branch of the Eastern Bank Limited. The file’s principal correspondents are the Political Agent and representatives (usually the manager) of the Bahrain branch of the Eastern Bank Limit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
30 Dec 1940-16 Mar 1950
Extent:
1 file (97 folios)

17. 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)

18. 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)

19. IOR/R/15/5/192

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/192
Title:
File 4/11 I Bank for Kuwait
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding the possibility of a foreign bank opening a branch in Kuwait. The two main candidates discussed in the file are Eastern Bank Limited and Ottoman Bank. Towards the end of the file, an expression of interest by al-Bank al-Arabi [Arab Bank] is also discus...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
30 Jan 1935-4 Apr 1939
Extent:
1 file (247 folios)

20. IOR/R/15/5/193

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/193
Title:
File 4/11 I Bank for Kuwait
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence related to the opening of an Imperial Bank of Iran branch in Kuwait in 1941/42 and the bank's first few years of operation in the country. The correspondence contained in the file consists of messages exchanged between British officials, representatives of the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
21 Mar 1940-9 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (155 folios)