ASI breathes life into 17th century Dutch cemetery

ASI breathes life into 17th century Dutch cemetery

Subject: History

Context: ASI breathes life into 17th century Dutch cemetery. As early as 1656 after the decline of the Portugese, the western bank of the river Hooghly was occupied by the Dutch. For nearly two centuries, a Dutch settlement flourished at Chinsurah and started intra-Asian trade

Context:

• Vasco-da-Gama reached the port of Calicut in 1498 during the reign of King Zamorin (Hindu ruler of Calicut).
• Dutch East India Company was formed in AD 1602. Dutch were defeated by English at the Battle of Bedara in AD 1759
• The English East India Company was formed in 1599 under a charter granted by Queen Elizabeth in 1600. Jahangir granted a farman to Captain William Hawkins permitting the English to erect a factory at Surat (1613).
• The Danish East India Company was formed in 1616.The Danish colony ‘Tranquebar’ was established on Southern Coromandel coast of India
• The French East India Company was formed by Colbert in 1664. The First French factory was established at Surat by Francois Caron in 1668. It set up a factory at Masulipatnam was set-up in 1669.

Portuguese (1498)English East India Company (1600)Dutch East India Company (1602)Danish East India Company (1616)French East India Company (1664)