Dutch Bengal
Dutch Bengal | |||||||||
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1627–1825 | |||||||||
Status | Factory | ||||||||
Capital | Pipely (1627–1635) Hugli-Chuchura (1635–1825) | ||||||||
Common languages | Dutch | ||||||||
Director | |||||||||
• 1655–1658 | Pieter Sterthemius | ||||||||
• 1724–1727 | Abraham Patras | ||||||||
• 1785–1792 | Isaac Titsingh | ||||||||
• 1792–1795 | Cornelis van Citters Aarnoutszoon | ||||||||
• 1817–1825 | Daniel Anthony Overbeek | ||||||||
Historical era | Imperialism | ||||||||
• Establishment of a trading post at Pipely | 1627 | ||||||||
1825 | |||||||||
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Bengal was a directorate of the
History
From 1615 onward, the Dutch East India Company traded in the eastern part of Mughal Province of
In 1627, the first trading post with a factory was established in Pipely Port in the coast of
.In 1635, a settlement was established in the proper
Dutch factories were established not only at important centres like
A famous Frenchman, General Perron who served as military advisor to the
Trade thrived in Mughal Empire's most developed region Bengal Subah in the early eighteenth century, to such an extent that the administrators of the Dutch East India Company allowed Hooghly-Chinsura in 1734 to trade directly with the Dutch Republic, instead of first delivering their goods to Batavia. The only other Dutch East India Company settlement to have this right was Dutch Ceylon.
Dutch control over Bengal was waning in the face of Anglo-French rivalry in India in the middle of the eighteenth century, and their status in Bengal was reduced to that of a minor power with the British victory in the Battle of Plassey in 1757. In 1759, the Dutch tried in vain to curb British power in Bengal in the Battle of Chinsurah.
Dutch Bengal was occupied by British forces in 1795, owing to the Kew Letters written by Dutch stadtholder William V, Prince of Orange, to prevent the colony from being occupied by France. The Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814 restored the colony to Dutch rule, but with the desire to divide the Indies into two separate spheres of influence, the Dutch ceded all their establishment on the Indian peninsula to the British with the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824.
Legacy
Fort Gustavus has since been obliterated from the face of Chinsurah, but much of the Dutch heritage remains. These include the
Cossimbazar still has a Dutch cemetery. The Dutch cemetery in Karinga near Chhapra features a mausoleum for Jacob van Hoorn, who died in 1712.[8]
The Dutch church of Chinsurah was demolished in 1988 by the West Bengal Public Works Department.
Trading posts
Dutch settlements in Bengal include:
- Dutch settlement in Rajshahi
- In Chhapra was a saltpeter factory (1666 -1781)(seized by British)
- Baleswar or Balasore (1675 -)
- Patna (1638)(1645-1651)(1651-1781)(seized by British)
- Cossimbazar or Kassamabazar
- Malda
- Mirzapur (in Bardhaman, West Bengal)
- Baliapal or Pipeli, the main port for the Dutch between 1627–1635
- Murshidabad (1710–1759)
- Rajmahal
- Dhaka (1665-)
- Sherpur
See also
References
- ^ De VOC site - Bengalen Archived 6 May 2019 at the Wayback Machine
- ISBN 0-02-866070-6. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
- ^ "The Dutch Cemetery in Chinsurah". www.dutchcemeterybengal.com. Archived from the original on 9 April 2019. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
- ^ Datta, Kalikinkar (1948). The Dutch in Bengal and Bihar, 1740-1825 A.D. University of Patna. p. 2.
- ^ De Jong, Dick (14 March 2014). "Nearly fifteen years VOC service in Bengal: Jan Albert Sichterman" (PDF). Retrieved 22 September 2020.
- ^ Datta, Kalikinkar (1948). The Dutch in Bengal and Bihar, 1740-1825 A.D. University of Patna. p. 4.
- ^ Datta, Kalikinkar (1948). The Dutch in Bengal and Bihar, 1740-1825 A.D. University of Patna. pp. 1–2.
- ^ Bauke van der Pol - Chhapra: Holland on the Ganges - The Lost Tomb
- ^ Majumdar, Diptosh (11 October 1988). "PWD vandals destroy historic church". Calcutta Times. Kolkata. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
- ^ The Dutch in India & Chinsurah by Dr Oeendrila Lahiri, p. 16
Further reading
- ISBN 9789090000947; OCLC 13375077
External links
- Dutch in Chinsurah
- Dutch Cemetery Bengal, Chinsurah Archived 9 April 2019 at the Wayback Machine