Year
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Incident
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1611
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East India Company (EIC) establishes a factory in Masulipatnam (modern Andhra Pradesh)
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1612
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Factory established in Surat
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1640
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Factory established in Madras
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1688
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Portuguese Bombay leased by EIC
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1700
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Factory established in Calcutta
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1717
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Farrukhsiyar grants ‘farman’ to EIC to carry on inland trade in Bengal with several significant concessions regarding tax concessions
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1750s: Carnatic Wars
(I: 1746-48
II: 1749-54
III: 1756-63)
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Carnatic Wars
These established the British East India’s Company’s supremacy amongst all the European companies in India). Around then, the Carnatic region was nominally a dependency of Hyderabad state (Mughal control), but was ruled by Nawab Dost Ali Khan
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I Carnatic war was the Indian theatre of the War of Austrian Succession in Europe, which brought Britain and France into conflict, and spilled onto the Indian subcontinent as well. Indian rulers were not involved; Brits came out on top. First military adventure of Robert Clive
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