Dutch East India Company (Part 2)

 Varenikde Ovstidische Kompakhni, VOC (Dutch: Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, VOC) or Englishman United East India Company is a Netherlands-based trading company founded in 1602 and allowed to trade arbitrarily for 21 years.  It was the first European company to visit India.  And it came to India in 1595

Indonesia

The Dutch arrived here in the early seventeenth century with the intention of entering the spice markets of Southeast Asia. In 1605 the Dutch took Anuvaina from the Portuguese and gradually established their dominance by defeating them in the Masala island Punj (Indonesia). The Dutch won Jakarta and in 1619 AD settled a city called Batavia at its ruins.

 India

The Dutch East India Company was established in 1602 in India. Before this, Cornelis Dehmann was the first Dutch citizen to visit India in 1596. The Dutch fought with the nobles and gradually they occupied all the spice producing regions of India. In 1639, they besieged Goa and two years later, in 1641, annexed Malacca.

The Dutch exported indigo, shora and cotton from India.

 The Dutch used to export indigo from Masulipatnam. The Dutch mainly traded cotton from India.

 The Dutch Trade Directorate at Surat was the highest profit making entity of the Dutch East India Company.

 The first Dutch factory in Bengal was set up at Pipli, but soon a factory was established at Balasore instead of Pipli.

 1653 AD In Chinsura became a more powerful Dutch trading center. Here the Dutch built a fort named Gustavul.

 The Dutch mainly exported cotton, silk, shora and opium from Bengal.

 The Dutch traded cotton cloth from the Coromandel coastal areas. The Dutch traded spices from the coast of Malabar.

 The Dutch introduced their gold-made pagoda coins in Pulicat.

 The Dutch in a way expelled the Portuguese from maritime trade in India, but the Dutch could not stand the naval power of the British.

 1759 AD between the Dutch and the British. In the Battle of Bedra in India, India proved the superiority of the English Navy and separated the Dutch from Indian trade.

 The main reasons for the failure of the Dutch in India were its direct control of the government, the company's corrupt and inept officials and employees.

 As a result of the arrival of the Dutch in India, the cotton textile industry reached the highest state of export.

 The export of Indian clothes to Europe had such a profound effect that England later became an important center of the textile industry.