History · Sources of Modern Indian History
UGC NET June 2012 History
Which one of the following centres was not a Dutch commercial establishment in India?
AMasulipatnam
BKarikal
CHugli ✓ Correct
DBalasore
Correct answer: (C) Hugli — Hugli was not a Dutch establishment, so the answer is Hugli.
Explanation
★Hugli was not a Dutch establishment, so the answer is Hugli.
★Hugli in Bengal was an early English settlement of 1651, abandoned in 1690 in favour of Calcutta.
★The Dutch held trading posts at Masulipatnam on the Coromandel coast and at Balasore in Orissa.
★Karikal, by contrast, was a French settlement on the southern coast, also not Dutch.
★The Dutch East India Company was a major rival of the English in the seventeenth century.
★It focused much of its effort on the spice trade of the East Indies.
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