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🔆THE GROWTH OF EAST INDIA COMPANY’S TRADE AND INFLUENCE: 1600 -1714
✅1608: first factory in Surat. Set up as ‘Trading Depot’.
✅Hawkins in Jahangir’s court à received Royal Farman for trade in west coast.
✅ 1615: Thomas Roe à Imperial Farman: to trade in all parts of Mughal Dynasty.
✅South India: After Vijayanagar Empire declined;
✅ First factory in South India: Masulipatnam 1611.
✅Centre shifted from Masulipatnam to Madras à fortification at Fort St. George.
✅✅ Island of Bombay occupied in 1668.
✅ Major Rivals: Marathas
✅Eastern India: first factory in Orissa in 1633.
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✅1608: first factory in Surat. Set up as ‘Trading Depot’.
✅Hawkins in Jahangir’s court à received Royal Farman for trade in west coast.
✅ 1615: Thomas Roe à Imperial Farman: to trade in all parts of Mughal Dynasty.
✅South India: After Vijayanagar Empire declined;
✅ First factory in South India: Masulipatnam 1611.
✅Centre shifted from Masulipatnam to Madras à fortification at Fort St. George.
✅✅ Island of Bombay occupied in 1668.
✅ Major Rivals: Marathas
✅Eastern India: first factory in Orissa in 1633.
#modern_history
#prelims
Join @Upsc_4_history