Dutch Suratte
Nederlandse vestiging van Suratte | |||||||||
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1616–1825 | |||||||||
Status | Factory | ||||||||
Capital | Suratte | ||||||||
Common languages | Dutch | ||||||||
Director | |||||||||
• 1620–1628 | Pieter van den Broecke | ||||||||
• 1673–1676 | Willem Volger | ||||||||
• 1699–1701 | Hendrick Zwaardecroon | ||||||||
• 1729–1740 | Pieter Phoonsen | ||||||||
• 1818–1825 | Conrad Josef Gustaf van Albedyll | ||||||||
Historical era | Imperialism | ||||||||
• Establishment of a trading post at Suratte | 1616 | ||||||||
• Handover to the British according to the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824 | 21 December 1825 | ||||||||
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Dutch Suratte, officially Nederlandse vestiging van Suratte (Dutch settlement in Surat), was a directorate of the
Due to internal unrest in the Mughal Empire, Surat's trade with the Mughal capital of Agra gradually declined in the early 18th century, with most trade shifting to
The Dutch possessions in Surat were occupied by British forces in 1795 by instruction of Dutch stadtholder William V, who wanted to prevent revolutionary France from taking possession of the Dutch holdings in Asia. It was restored to the Dutch in 1818, but again ceded to the English in 1825, owing to the provisions of the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824.
History
In 1691, Hendrik van Rheede, administrator of the Dutch East India Company, died on his way from Kochi in Dutch Malabar to Suratte. He was buried with much pomp and circumstance on the Dutch-Armenian cemetery of Surat.
By 1759, the Dutch East India Company's trade had fallen substantially. Trade had largely moved to British
The
When the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814 again restored the Dutch possessions in Suratte to Dutch rule, Van Albedyll's son Conrad Josef Gustaf van Albedyll, who had traveled to Surat as part of the commission under the leadership of his father, was installed as the new resident of Dutch Suratte on 1 May 1818.[8] He remained in office until Dutch Suratte was again relinquished to the British by the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824, which divided East Asia into Dutch and British spheres of influence.
Legacy
Surat still has a Dutch-Armenian cemetery, which features the mausoleum of Hendrik van Rheede. Bharuch has remnants of the Dutch lodge and a Dutch cemetery.[9][10] Agra features a mausoleum for Jan Willem Hessing (1739–1803), a Dutch soldier who became a military adviser to Maharaja Mahadaji Shinde.[11]
Trading posts
Settlement | Type | Established | Disestablished | Notes |
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Suratte | Factory | 1616 | 1825 | Founded by Pieter van den Broecke in 1616. After the British took the city of Suratte from the Mughal Empire in 1759, the trading post's role diminished. Eventually relinquished to the British in the Kew Letters and temporarily restored to the Dutch between 1818 and 1825. |
Ahmadabad | Factory | 1617 | 1744 | Important trading port. The Dutch East India Company office was founded in 1617 and eventually abandoned in 1744. |
Agra | Factory | 1621 | 1720 | Capital of the Mughal Empire. Due to the remote location of six weeks travel from Suratte, the trading post was almost never visited by inspectors of the Dutch East India Company. Private trading (forbidden by the Dutch East India Company) and corruption made traders here rich men. |
Cambay | Factory | 1617 | 1643 | Rather unsuccessful post due to the inability of ships to dock at the port at low tide. After problems with local merchants closed in 1643. |
Image Gallery
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"Logie van Suratte", a view of the lodge of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in Surat as seen in April 1629 by Pieter van den Broecke (1585-1640), a Dutch cloth merchant in the service of VOC.
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The Dutch lodge at Ahmedabat.
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The Dutch lodge at Agra.
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The Dutch-Armenian cemetery in Surat.
See also
- Dutch India
- François Caron
- Mattheus de Haan
- Hubert Hugo
- Hendrik van Rheede
- Willem Verstegen
- Hendrick Zwaardecroon
Notes
- ^ a b Van der Kemp 1901, p. 409.
- ^ De VOC site - Suratte Archived 2019-07-02 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Salim, Nur-ud-din Muhammed (1909). Beveridge, Henry; Rogers, Alexander (eds.). Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri or Memoirs of Jahangir: From the first to the twelfth year of its reign (PDF). Vol. 1. London: Royal Asiatic Society, London. p. 417.
In the time of the Sultans of Gujarat, the customs of this port came to a large sum. Now in my reign it is ordered that they should not take more than one in forty. In other ports, calling it a tithe, they take one in ten or one in eight, and give all kinds of trouble to merchants and travellers.
- ^ Coen, Jan Pieterszoon (1952). "Pieter Gillisz, Van Ravesteyn en Adriaen Willemz, Soeratte 12 Maart 1618". In Coolhaas, Willem Phillipus (ed.). Bescheiden omtrent zijn bedrijf in Indie (in Dutch). The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff. pp. 316–317. Retrieved 23 May 2022.
- JSTOR 44140624. Retrieved 23 May 2022 – via JSTOR.
- ^ Van der Kemp 1901, p. 410.
- ^ Van der Kemp 1901, pp. 410–411.
- ^ Van der Kemp 1901, p. 416.
- ^ "Bharuch: Dutch sundial in 2019". dutchindianheritage.net. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
- ^ "Bharuch revisited in 2019". dutchindianheritage.net. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
- ^ "Agra: Jan Willem Hessing's 'Red Taj'". dutchindianheritage.net. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
References
- Van der Kemp, P.H. (1901). "De Nederlandsche factorijen in vóór-Indië in den aanvang der 19e eeuw". Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. 53 (1): 286–507. .
External links
- http://www.vocsite.nl/geschiedenis/handelsposten/suratte.html
- http://www.swaen.com/antique-map-of.php?id=1214
- http://www.voc-kenniscentrum.nl/prod-suiker.html