File 74/1915 Pt 6 'Mesopotamia: Banking Arrangements - The Eastern Bank's Branches at Mosul (+ Kermanshah). Embargo on Eastern Bank's Drafts at Aleppo'

Content

This part mainly consists of correspondence, and 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. 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 prohibition on dealings with the Eastern Bank’s demand drafts; and the Eastern Bank opening a branch at Bahrain (Bahrein).

It includes correspondence between the 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. and the following: the Eastern Bank Limited; the Foreign Office; and the Civil Commissioner, Baghdad.

The file also includes a copy letter from the Consul, Imperial Consulate of Persia, Ordnance Works, Sheffield, to the Foreign Office, and a copy reply from the Foreign Office, July 1920, regarding the proposal of the Persian Consul to establish an Anglo-Persian Commercial and Trading Bank in Persia.

Extent and format

1 item (79 folios)

It is part of

File 74/1915 Pt 4-6 'The War: Banking Arrangements in Iraq'

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Ref: IOR/L/PS/10/531

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival item

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/PS/10/531/3

Former British Library reference

P 74/1915 Pt 6

History of this record

Date(s)

30 Dec 1918-30 Jul 1920 (CE, Gregorian)

Places

Kermānshāh (inhabited place)MosulBahrain

People & organisations

Eastern Bank Limited

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File 74/1915 Pt 6 'Mesopotamia: Banking Arrangements - The Eastern Bank's Branches at Mosul (+ Kermanshah). Embargo on Eastern Bank's Drafts at Aleppo', British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/10/531/3, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100056379988.0x000001> [accessed 18 April 2024]

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