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Dutch Bengal | |||||||||
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| 1627–1825 | |||||||||
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.png) Dutch Bengal (in green) within Dutch India | |||||||||
| 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 Dutch East India Company in Mughal Bengal between 1610 until the company's liquidation in 1800. It then became a colony of the Kingdom of the Netherlands until 1825, when it was relinquished to the British according to the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824. Dutch presence in the region started by the establishment of a trading post at Pipili in the mouth of Subarnarekha River in Odisha. The former colony is part of what is today called Dutch India.[1] Bengal was the source of 50% of the textiles and 80% of the raw silk imported from Asia by the Dutch.[2]
- ^ De VOC site - Bengalen Archived 6 May 2019 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Prakash, Om (2006). "Empire, Mughal". In McCusker, John J. (ed.). History of World Trade Since 1450. Vol. 1. Macmillan Reference USA. pp. 237–240. ISBN 0-02-866070-6. Retrieved 3 August 2017.