Advent of the Europeans in India Flashcards
Prince Henry of Portugal who was nicknamed
‘Navigator
gave Prince Henry a bull in 1454, conferring on him the right to navigate the “sea to the distant shores of the Orient
Pope Nicholas V
the rulers of Portugal and Spain divided the non-Christian world between them by an imaginary line in the Atlantic
the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494
rounded the Cape of Good Hope in Africa
and sailed up the eastern coast
Bartholomew Dias, 1487
A voyage was undertaken by to
trade for spices, negotiating and establishing a factory at Calicut
Pedro Alvarez Cabral
da Gama set up a
trading factory at
Cannanore.
the newly appointed governor, was asked to
consolidate the position of the Portuguese in India
Francisco De Almeida, 1ST GOVERNOR
Blue Water Policy
Francisco De Almeida,
He secured for Portugal the strategic control of the Indian Ocean
Alfonso de Albuquerque
The Portuguese, Under bolstered their stranglehold by introducing
a permit system for other ships
Albuquerque
acquired Goa from the Sultan of Bijapur in 1510, the first bit of Indian territory
Alfonso de Albuquerque
An interesting feature
of his rule was the abolition of sati
Alfonso de Albuquerque
shifted the headquarters of the Portuguese government in
India from Cochin to Goa
Nino da Cunha
during his conflict with the Mughal emperor Humayun, secured help from the Portuguese by ceding to them in 1534 the island of Bassein
Bahadur Shah of Gujarat
the Vedor da Fazenda,
responsible for revenues
1ST MISSION TO AKBARS COURT, 1579
Jesuit fathers, Rodolfo Aquaviva and Antonio Monserrat
THIRD mission called by Akbar in 1595
Fathers Jerome Xavier and Emanuel Pinheiro
their letters from the court
became very widely known for the information they provided
on the latter part of Akbar’s reign
Fathers Jerome Xavier and Emanuel Pinheiro
the English ship Dragon along with a little ship, the Osiander, successfully fought a Portuguese
fleet. Jahangir,
under Captain Best
it was during the
reign of , that the advantages which the Portuguese enjoyed in the Mughal court were lost forever
Shah Jahan
Shah Jahan ordered theto take
action against the Portuguese. A siege of Hooghly
Bengal governor Qasim Khan
Goa was superseded by
as the economic centre of the overseas empire of
Portugal.
Brazil
was the first Dutchman
to reach Sumatra and Bantam in 1596.
Cornelis de Houtman
Dutch founded their first
factory in
Masulipatnam (in Andhra) in 1605
dealt a crushing blow to Dutch ambitions in Indi
defeat of the
Dutch, in the battle of Hooghly (November 1759
Jahangir granted permission to the English in early 1613 to establish a factory at
Surat under Thomas Aldworth
came as an accredited ambassador of James I to the court
of Jahangir
Sir Thomas Roe
The English Company’s position was improved by the
‘Golden Farman’ issued to them by .
the Sultan of Golconda
in 1632
the subahdar of Bengal in 1651, allowed
the English to trade in Bengal
Shah Shuja,
the first agent and governor of the Company in
Bengal appealed to Shayista Khan, the Mughal governor of
Bengal in August 1682,
William Hedges,
After the Mughal raid on Hooghly, this person, a
company agent, started negotiations with the Mughals so as
to return to a place called Sutanuti.
Job Charnock
1st president of fort william
Sir Charles Eyre
Magna Carta of the Company
Farrukhsiyar’s Farman, in 1715
Farrukhsiyar’s Farman, in 1715
giving the Company many valuable privileges in
Bengal, Gujarat and Hyderabad.
The Company was permitted to issue dastaks (passes)
for the transportation of such goods
the coins of the Company minted
at Bombay were to have currency throughout the
Mughal empire.
in 1667, French person headed an expedition to India, setting up a factory in Surat.
Francois Caron
In 1673, , granted Francois Martin, the
director of the Masulipatnam factory, a site for a settlement.
Sher Khan Lodi, the governor of Valikondapuram
under the Bijapur Sultan
First Carnatic War was an extension of the Anglo-French War in Europe which was caused by
the Austrian War of
Succession
The First Carnatic War ended in 1748 when
the Treaty of Aix-La Chapelle bringing the Austrian
War of Succession to a conclusion.
The First Carnatic War is remembered
for the)
Battle of St. Thome (in Madras
Second Carnatic War (1749-54)
The French supported the claims of Muzaffar Jang and
Chanda Sahib in the Deccan and Carnatic, respectively, while
the English sided with Nasir Jang and Anwar-ud-din.
the first European to interfere in the internal
politics of the Indian rulers.
Dupleix
Third Carnatic War (1758-63)
Battle of Wandiwash , General Eyre
Coote of the English
restored to the French their factories in India,
the Treaty of Peace of Paris
1763
Dutch had already been
defeated in the
Battle of Bidara in 1759.
The Danes founded a factory at
Tranquebar near Tanjore,
