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‘File 16/10 II Correspondence with Eastern Bank Ltd. Bahrain’ [‎5r] (9/198)

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The record is made up of 1 file (97 folios). It was created in 30 Dec 1940-16 Mar 1950. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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No.89-16/10
Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. ,
Bahrain.
14th January, 1941.
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To
The Manager,
The Sstem Bank Limited,
Bahrain.
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Dear Sir,
Please refer to your letter dated the
6th January, 1941 regarding the proposed Indian
Trading Company.
2. Would you please let me know the names
of the three partners of the Indian trading
Company.
Yours faithfully,
IA^
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Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Bahraini

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Correspondence, chiefly of a routine nature, exchanged between the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Bahrain and the Bahrain branch of the Eastern Bank Limited. The file’s principal correspondents are the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. and representatives (usually the manager) of the Bahrain branch of the Eastern Bank Limited (M Gunn; T J De La Mare; D Ham). The file is a direct chronological continuation of ‘Miscellaneous 16/10 Eastern Bank Ltd: Correspondence with ––’ (IOR/R/15/2/1503).

Covering the years of the Second World War, much of the correspondence relates to wartime circumstances and events:

  • in December 1941, used stamp collections to raise funds for the air raid victims of German bombing raids on Portsmouth (ff 20-21);
  • in October 1942, the introduction of cheque book charges, in response to the rising costs of paper and printing (f 37);
  • in November 1942, an acute shortage of small coinage in India (f 38);
  • in 1944, efforts to send money to the wife of a Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) employee who was resident in Beirut, in light of the Levant A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea. region no longer being part of the Sterling Bloc (ff 47-62).

Other correspondence covers: in 1941, the efforts of three BAPCO employees to set up a private trading company; also in 1941, changes to rates for the purchase of Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. demand drafts in India; in 1949, issues arising from the redirection of mail from the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. to the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. (based in Bahrain from 1947). The file also contains copies of reports and annual accounts for the Eastern Bank Limited, dated May 1944 (f 65, duplicate at f 69) and March 1945 (f 73), and a copy, in English and Arabic, of the Eastern Bank Bahrain’s rules for savings deposit accounts (ff 23-28).

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1 file (97 folios)
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The file’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the earliest item at the front to the latest at the end. The file notes at the end of the file (ff 88-98) mirror the chronological arrangement.

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The foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 99; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.

An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 2-81; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.

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English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script
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