Advent Of European Flashcards
By the 17th century, all European nations established commercial empires in India. Their operations were primarily focused on coastal port cities in India and did not infringe upon the sovereignty of indigenous politics. True or false.
True
Major European power that come to India
Portuguese 1498
Dutch 1602
English 1608
Danes 1616
French 1664
First European to reach Indian Ocean from Atlantic
Bartholomew Dias (1487)
In 1497___ reached Calicut,ruled by ___
Vasco
Zamorin
Who establish Portuguese first factory and where?
Cabral at Calicut in 1500
First Portuguese Viceroy
Francisco de Almeida
Who initiated the blue water policy and constructed for Anjediva?
Almeida
Who is known as real founder of Portuguese empire in India and why?
Alfonso de Albuquerque
Bcuz abolish Sati,
new plants,
conquered Goa from Sultan of Bijapur
Inter marriages
Trading centres expanded
Christianity
Who transferred headquarter from Cochin to Goa?
Nino De Cunha
Causes of failure of Portuguese
Lack of leadership
Corrupt administration
Religious policy
Neglected by home government
Impact of Portuguese coming to India
Spread of Christianity western education
New crops and vegetables
Cartaz System
First Dutch traveller to reach India
Houtman in 1596
First Dutch factory?
1605 at Masulipatnam
Dutch main interest was in Indonesia Archipelago & the spice Island, not India, true or false
True
The first credit of making Indian cloth as an item of export goes to
Dutch
Dutch in 1610, signed a treaty , with the king of____ and established their headquarters at_____ and maintained their gold coins called____
Chandragiri
Pulicat
Pagoda
Who’s model of trade was based on cartel or cooperative system?
Dutch
Anglo Dutch rivalry - battle of
Bedara - dutch khtm
First English man who said his foot on Indian soil and came in a ship called
Captain Hawkins
Hector
Who got Royal Farman by Jahagir and open first factory at?
First temporary factory was it
Thomas best, surat
Musulipatnam
Who got the Royal Farman to open factories in the whole of India?
Thomas Roe
Who allowed the British to trade freely in return of fixed payment?
Sultan of Golkonda in 1632
Who obtained Madras from Raja of Chandragiri and fortified it and called it as
Francis Day
Fort St George
Fort DevanPatnam near Madras renamed as
Fort David
First factory in south-east coast was in
Odisha
In 1690, who establish factory at sutanati, which was fortified in 1697 and known as
Job Charnock
Fort Williams
In 1717, who gave Farman ( magna car of the company)
Farukh Siyar
Danes establish their trading outpost in India by 1620 @
Tanjore (Tranquebar)
Under who first protest, a visionary came to India to propagate Christianity in area of Andaman and Nicobar
Danes
First French factory at
Surat - 1668
In 1672, village of a grant received from the king of Bijapur, where ___was founded (capital also) (snatched by Dutch)
Pondichery
First Carnatic war - timeline,
background and treaty
1740 to 1748
Austrian war of succession
Treaty of Aix La Chapelle
Battle of St Thomas was fought between
Nawab of Carnatic (Anwar Uddin) vs French
Near river Adyar
Second Carnatic war - timeline, background and treaty
1749 to 1755
Dynastic foods in South India
Treaty of Pondicherry
Third Carnatic war - timeline, background, treaty
1757 to 1763
Seven year war
Piece of Paris
Battle of wandiwash was fought between
French versus British (1760)
