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'Arabia. Handbooks prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office - no 90' [‎117] (132/148)

The record is made up of 1 volume (69 folios). It was created in 1919. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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Arabia]
BANKING
117
part payment in silver and the rest in dates and other
articles.
(3) Banking
A branch of the National Bank of India, Ltd., at
Aden, is the only bank in Arabia in the European
sense of the word.
The Mohammedan religion forbids banking, but the
prohibition is evaded in most Moslem countries.
There are a considerable number of Hindu bankers
at Muscat, who finance pearl-merchants and impor
ters, and also do business in silver, profiting by the
fluctuations in value of the dollar.
(4) Injlnence of Foreign Capital
Foreign capital enters Arabia for both political and
economic purposes, but not to any large extent. The
Turkish and British Governments pay subsidies to
various mediatised sultans and lesser chiefs, and the
surra (cf. p. 112) is religious as well as political
in scope. There is some doubt as to whether
it was always regularly paid. To British
capital is due Aden's development as a
port, but Aden's commerce is chiefly financed by
foreign merchants of various nationalities {see p. 96).
Turkish capital is only invested economically in the
Salif salt works, a very flourishing concern. French
and Italian capital was beginning to be invested to a
small extent in economic undertakings, such as piers
and railways (see pp. 55, 96), and Italian capital also
in the successful salt works of Aden. The pastoral
tribes of the north are dependent on Damascus capital
and the camel-rearing tribes of the centre on that of
Baghdad. Hindu bankers finance the pearl-mer
chants of Oman and also the Muscat importing firms,
while Jewish capital is engaged more or less at most
of the ports and at Sana, where there is a Jewish
quarter. European merchants are reputed to do

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This volume contains information on the geography, political history and economic conditions of Arabia and was published by the Historical Section of the Foreign Office in April 1919.

It is divided into four sections: 'Geography Physical and Political'; 'Political History'; 'Political Conditions' and 'Economic Conditions'. There is an Appendix, containing tables regarding trade in Aden, Muscat and Bahrein, 1909-1917.

There is a map 'Sketch Map of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and Arabia', compiled by the War Office on June 1914.

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1 volume (69 folios)
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Foliation: There is a foliation sequence, which is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. It begins on the first folio with text, on number 1, and ends on the map on a sleeve on the inside back cover, on number 70.

Pagination: There is also an original pagination, iv-vi, 2-127.

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