History Modern India

COMING OF EUROPEANS

➮ Vasco da Gama landed at Calicut in 1498 A.D. Vasco Da Gama returned to Portugal in 1499 with cargo worth 60 times of his expenses.
➮ Portuguese set up trading stations at Calicut, Cochin, and Cannore in 1502.
➮ Cartaz system (passes given to ships) was introduced by Portugese.
➮ Cochin was the early capital of the Portuguese in India. Later Goa replaced it.
➮ De Almeida was the first Portuguese governor (1505-1509) in India.
➮ Albuquerque was appointed the second governor of Portuguese in India in 1509.
➮ Albuquerque encouraged his country men to marry Indian womens. He persecuted the Muslims.
➮ In March 1602, the Dutch east India company was formed.
➮ The name of the company was ‘Uereenigde Oost Indische Companie’. (also known as Dutch United East India Company)
➮ Till 1690 Pulicat was their main centre in India, thereafter Nagapattam replaced it.
➮ Their final collapse with their defeat by the English in the battle of Badera in 1759.
➮ The English east India Company was formed by a group of merchants known as “The Merchant Adventurers’ in 1599”.
➮ Captain Hawkins arrived at Jahangir court in 1609 and was given a mansab of 400.
➮ Sir Thomas Roe was an ambassador of James-I to Jahangir’s court.
➮ In 1661 AD the Portuguese gave Bombay as a part of dowry to their princess, on her marriage with charles-II of Britain.
➮ Queen Elizabeth was the largest share holder of East India Company.
➮ Masulipatnam (1611) was first English settlement on East-coast.
➮ In 1717 Farrukh Siyar confirmed the privileges (farman) of 1691 and extended them to Gujarat and Deccan also.
➮ The Danes formed an East India Company in 1616.
➮ Serampore was their headquarter in India.
➮ Establishment of the first French factory at Surat by Francois Caron in 1668.
➮ Establishments of a factory at Masulipatnam by Marcara in 1669.
➮ In 1673, acquisition of village of Valikondapuram (Pondicherry) and Bellanger de Lespinay by Francois
➮ Arrival of Dupleix, French Governor in India in 1742 and the beginning of the Anglo-French conflict (Carnatic wars), resulting in defeat of French power in India.
➮ French were finally defeated in the battle of Wandiwash (1760) by English and they lost almost all Indian settlements (by the treaty of Paris in 1763) to English.
Establishment of First European
Factories in India.

ENTRY OF EUROPEAN POWERS

Portuguese → Dutch → English → Danes → French
Company Year of Estd.
Estado da India (Portuguese Company) 1498
British East India Company 1600
Verrenigde Oost Indische Companie (Dutch) 1602
Danish East India Company 1616
Compagnie des Indes Orientales (French) 1664