History

ASI breathes life into seventeenth century Dutch memorial park. As early as 1656 once the decline of the Portugese, the western bank of the watercourse Hooghly was occupied by the Dutch. For nearly 2 centuries, a Dutch settlement flourished at Chinsurah and began intra-Asian trade
• Vasco-da-Gama reached the port of Calicut in 1498 throughout the reign of King Zamorin (Hindu ruler of Calicut).
• Dutch Malay Archipelago Company was fashioned in AD 1602.
• Dutch were defeated by English at the Battle of Bedara in AD 1759.
• The English Malay Archipelago Company was fashioned in 1599 beneath a charter granted by Queen Elizabeth in 1600.
• Jahangir granted a farman to Captain William Hawkins allowing country to erect a industrial plant at Surat (1613).
• The Danish Malay Archipelago Company was fashioned in 1616.
• The Danish colony ‘Tranquebar’ was established on Southern Coromandel coast of Asian nation.
• The French Malay Archipelago Company was fashioned by sauce in 1664.
• The 1st French industrial plant was established at Surat by Francois Caron in 1668.
• It created a industrial plant at Masulipatnam was set-up in 1669.

v Portuguese (1498)

v English East India Company (1600)

v Dutch East India Company (1602)

v Danish East India Company (1616)

v French East India Company (1664)