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Modern History Notes on Advent of European in India

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Dear Readers, History covers a good number of questions making it an important

topic to cover in SSC Exams.  Around 5-8 questions asks from History which surely
makes it important for you to study the topic well for upcoming SSC and Railway
Exams. Here is Modern History Notes on Advent of European in India which you
should not ignore.

Advent of the Europeans

Portuguese

Vasco-da-Gama reached the port of Calicut in 1498 during the reign of king
Zamorin (Hindu ruler of Calicut).
Sattlements Daman, Salsette, Chaul and Bombay (West coast), San Thome
(near Madras) and at Hooghly.
Alfonso de Albuquerque, the second Governor of India ( rst being Fransisco
de Almeida) arrived in 1509 and captured Goa in AD 1510.

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Dutch

Dutch East India Company was formed in AD 1602.

Dutch were defeated by English at the Battle of Bedara in AD 1759 and as per
agreement, the Dutch gained the control over Indonesia and the British over
India, Sri Lanka and Malaya.
Settlements They set-up their rst factory at Masulipatnam in 1605. Their
other factories were at Pulicat, Chinsura, Patna, Balasore, Naga pattanam,
Cochin, Surat, Karikal and Kasimbazar.

English

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).
In 1615, Sir Thomas Roe succeeded in getting an imperial farman to trade and
establish factory in all parts of the Mughal Empire by ruler Jahangir.
In 1690, a factory was established at Suttanati by Jab Chrnock. In 1698,
following the acquisition of zamindari of three villages of Suttanati, Kalikata
and Govindpur, the city of Calcutta was founded. Fort William was set-up in
1700.
In 1717, John Surman obtained a farman from Farrukhsiyar, which gave large
concessions to the company. This farman has been called the Magna Carta of
the Company.
Battle of Plassey (1757) English defeated Sirajuddaula, the nawab of Bengal.
Battle of Buxar (1764) Captain Munro defeated joint forces of Mir Qasim
(Bengal), Shujauddaula (Awadh) and Shah Alam II (Mughal).

Danes

The Danish East India Company was formed in 1616.

The Danish colony 'Tranquebar' was established on Southern Coromondel
coat of India.
Settlements Serampur (Bengal) and Tranquebar (Tamil Nadu) sold their
settlements to the English in 1845.

French

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The French East India Company was formed by Colbert under state patronage
in 1664. The First French factory was established at Surat by Francois Caron
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in 1668. A factory at Masulipatnam was set-up in 1669.

French were defeated by English in Battle of Wandiwash (1760).

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