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Diplomacy in a provincial setting : the East India companies in seventeenth-century Bengal and Orissa

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Meersbergen, Guido van (2018) Diplomacy in a provincial setting : the East India companies in seventeenth-century Bengal and Orissa. In: Clulow, Adam and Mostert, Tristan, (eds.) The Dutch and English East India Companies: Diplomacy, Trade and Violence in Early Modern Asia. Asian History . Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. ISBN 9789462983298

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Abstract

On 22 October 1634, the clerk responsible for keeping the diary drawn up in Batavia Castle (Dagh-Register gehouden in’ t Casteel Batavia) diligently summarized the latest intelligence about trade in the Bay of Bengal. His employer, the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, had just commenced trading operations in the Mughal provinces of Bengal and Orissa, and a barque arriving that day carried initial snippets of information concerning the first Dutch factory in the region , recently established in the small port town of Hariharpur. So far trade had been slack, hampered by a shortage of merchandise and high prices. This unpromising yet otherwise rather ordinary entry took a surprising turn, however, when discussing another recent entrant in to the Bengal trade, the English East India Company. The building of an English factory in Hariharpur had commenced with the consent of the nawab (provincial governor) of Orissa, but, according to Dutch reports, once the structure was nearly completed, the nawab had it entirely ‘destroyed and pulled down again’. 3 The reason given for this reversal of fortunes was that ‘a certain English merch ant named Mr. Cartrijcq’ and ‘the wife of a prominent Moor there residing’ were found to be ‘having carnal conversation through a large hole in the wall of said lodge’. To make things worse, when Cartwright left on Company business to nearby Balasore, he had attempted to take the married woman with him.

Item Type: Book Item
Subjects: D History General and Old World > DS Asia
H Social Sciences > HF Commerce
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > History
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): East India Company -- History, Commerce -- History -- West Bengal (India), Commerce -- History -- Orissa (Índia)
Series Name: Asian History
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Place of Publication: Amsterdam
ISBN: 9789462983298
Book Title: The Dutch and English East India Companies: Diplomacy, Trade and Violence in Early Modern Asia
Editor: Clulow, Adam and Mostert, Tristan
Official Date: 10 December 2018
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10 December 2018Published
Number of Pages: 272
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Date of first compliant deposit: 17 May 2018
Date of first compliant Open Access: 17 May 2018
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