Advent of the Europeans in India

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Prince Henry of Portugal who was nicknamed

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‘Navigator

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gave Prince Henry a bull in 1454, conferring on him the right to navigate the “sea to the distant shores of the Orient

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Pope Nicholas V

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the rulers of Portugal and Spain divided the non-Christian world between them by an imaginary line in the Atlantic

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the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494

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rounded the Cape of Good Hope in Africa

and sailed up the eastern coast

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Bartholomew Dias, 1487

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A voyage was undertaken by to

trade for spices, negotiating and establishing a factory at Calicut

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Pedro Alvarez Cabral

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da Gama set up a

trading factory at

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Cannanore.

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the newly appointed governor, was asked to

consolidate the position of the Portuguese in India

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Francisco De Almeida, 1ST GOVERNOR

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Blue Water Policy

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Francisco De Almeida,

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He secured for Portugal the strategic control of the Indian Ocean

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Alfonso de Albuquerque

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The Portuguese, Under bolstered their stranglehold by introducing
a permit system for other ships

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Albuquerque

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acquired Goa from the Sultan of Bijapur in 1510, the first bit of Indian territory

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Alfonso de Albuquerque

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An interesting feature

of his rule was the abolition of sati

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Alfonso de Albuquerque

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shifted the headquarters of the Portuguese government in

India from Cochin to Goa

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Nino da Cunha

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during his conflict with the Mughal emperor Humayun, secured help from the Portuguese by ceding to them in 1534 the island of Bassein

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Bahadur Shah of Gujarat

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the Vedor da Fazenda,

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responsible for revenues

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1ST MISSION TO AKBARS COURT, 1579

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Jesuit fathers, Rodolfo Aquaviva and Antonio Monserrat

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THIRD mission called by Akbar in 1595

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Fathers Jerome Xavier and Emanuel Pinheiro

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their letters from the court
became very widely known for the information they provided
on the latter part of Akbar’s reign

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Fathers Jerome Xavier and Emanuel Pinheiro

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the English ship Dragon along with a little ship, the Osiander, successfully fought a Portuguese
fleet. Jahangir,

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under Captain Best

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it was during the

reign of , that the advantages which the Portuguese enjoyed in the Mughal court were lost forever

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Shah Jahan

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Shah Jahan ordered theto take

action against the Portuguese. A siege of Hooghly

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Bengal governor Qasim Khan

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Goa was superseded by
as the economic centre of the overseas empire of
Portugal.

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Brazil

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was the first Dutchman

to reach Sumatra and Bantam in 1596.

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Cornelis de Houtman

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Dutch founded their first

factory in

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Masulipatnam (in Andhra) in 1605

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dealt a crushing blow to Dutch ambitions in Indi

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defeat of the

Dutch, in the battle of Hooghly (November 1759

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Jahangir granted permission to the English in early 1613 to establish a factory at

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Surat under Thomas Aldworth

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came as an accredited ambassador of James I to the court

of Jahangir

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Sir Thomas Roe

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The English Company’s position was improved by the

‘Golden Farman’ issued to them by .

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the Sultan of Golconda

in 1632

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the subahdar of Bengal in 1651, allowed

the English to trade in Bengal

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Shah Shuja,

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the first agent and governor of the Company in
Bengal appealed to Shayista Khan, the Mughal governor of
Bengal in August 1682,

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William Hedges,

Question 31

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.

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Job Charnock

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1st president of fort william

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Sir Charles Eyre

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Magna Carta of the Company

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Farrukhsiyar’s Farman, in 1715

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Farrukhsiyar’s Farman, in 1715

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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.

Question 35

in 1667, French person headed an expedition to India, setting up a factory in Surat.

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Francois Caron

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In 1673, , granted Francois Martin, the

director of the Masulipatnam factory, a site for a settlement.

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Sher Khan Lodi, the governor of Valikondapuram

under the Bijapur Sultan

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First Carnatic War was an extension of the Anglo-French War in Europe which was caused by

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the Austrian War of

Succession

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The First Carnatic War ended in 1748 when

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the Treaty of Aix-La Chapelle bringing the Austrian

War of Succession to a conclusion.

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The First Carnatic War is remembered

for the)

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Battle of St. Thome (in Madras

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Second Carnatic War (1749-54)

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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.

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the first European to interfere in the internal

politics of the Indian rulers.

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Dupleix

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Third Carnatic War (1758-63)

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Battle of Wandiwash , General Eyre

Coote of the English

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restored to the French their factories in India,

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the Treaty of Peace of Paris

1763

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Dutch had already been

defeated in the

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Battle of Bidara in 1759.

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The Danes founded a factory at

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Tranquebar near Tanjore,