Events in the year 1668 in India. 27 July – Bombay is granted to the East India Company. 1 September - The ship 'Constantinople Merchant' reaches the coast...
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1668 (MDCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1668th...
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The East India Company (EIC) (1600–1874) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to...
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Catherine of Braganza; Charles in turn leased Bombay to the Company in 1668. Two decades later, the company established a trade post in the River Ganges delta...
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Surat in 1668 and established the first French factory in India. In 1669, Marcara succeeded in establishing another French factory at Masulipatam. In 1672...
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British Raj (redirect from British Empire in India)
is also called Crown rule in India, or Direct rule in India. The region under British control was commonly called India in contemporaneous usage and included...
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exerted both by conquest and trade, especially in spices. The search for the wealth and prosperity of India led to the colonisation of the Americas after...
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Francois Bernier, Travels in the Mogul Empire, AD 1656–1668, revised by Vincent Smith (Oxford, 1934) Lal, Slavery in India Jackson (1999), 'The sultans...
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The Royal Charter of 27 March 1668 was an agreement between the Kingdom of England and the English East India Company. It led to the transfer of Bombay...
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State of India (Portuguese: Estado da Índia [ɨʃˈtaðu ðɐ ˈĩdiɐ]), also known as the Portuguese State of India (Portuguese: Estado Português da Índia, EPI)...
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East India Company rule in India (or the Company Raj, from Hindi rāj, lit. 'rule') was the rule of the British East India Company on the Indian subcontinent...
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Hyderabad (redirect from India Hyderabad)
Francois (1891). Travels in the Mogul Empire, 1656–1668 (1st ed.). London: Archibald Constable. p. 19. The march of India. Publications Division, Ministry...
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the King's Colours. The East India Company continued using their ensign with the flag of England in the canton. In 1668, King Charles II transferred control...
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transfer of Bombay to the British occurred in 1665. The British East India Company took full control in 1668 after leasing it from the Crown for a nominal...
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Dutch India (Dutch: Nederlands Indië) consisted of the settlements and trading posts of the Dutch East India Company on the Indian subcontinent. It is...
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Gujarat (redirect from Gujarat, India)
which formed their first base in India, but it was eclipsed by Bombay after the English received it from Portugal in 1668 as part of the marriage treaty...
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Mumbai (redirect from Mumbai, India)
and Wadala. In accordance with the Royal Charter of 27 March 1668, England leased these islands to the English East India Company in 1668 for a sum of...
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Tourism in India is economically important and ever-growing[citation needed]. The World Travel & Tourism Council calculated that tourism generated ₹14...
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Indian independence movement (redirect from Nationalist Movements in India)
seeking the right to appear for Indian Civil Service examinations in British India, as well as more economic rights for natives. The first half of the...
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Description of Africa (Dapper book) (redirect from Description of Africa (1668 book))
ethnographic book published in 1668 describing Africa. The work consists of detailed description of the parts of Africa known to Europeans in the mid-seventeenth...
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Portuguese India (Portuguese: Índia Portuguesa) started on 12 September 1505, seven years after the Portuguese discovery of the sea route to India by Vasco...
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Ater Fort (category Forts in Madhya Pradesh)
Bhind in Bhind district, Madhya Pradesh, India. It was built by Bhadauria kings Badan Singh, Maha Singh and Bakhat Singh between 1664 and 1668. Khooni...
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Arunachal Pradesh (redirect from Arunachal Pradesh, India)
Tibet owing to the poverty in Khorwong valley came back to Monyul to become its ruler. The Rgyal rigs text written in 1668 or 1728 contains a record of...
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Portuguese word Tope. In 1668, two companies of East India Company's artillery were formed at Bombay. The other presidencies followed suit. In 1748, the Court...
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Seven Islands of Bombay (category Former islands of India)
adjacent islets to the East India Company in 1668 for £10 per year (receiving a loan of £50,000 at 6% interest in return for the favor). By 1845, the islands...
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Mughal Empire (redirect from Mogul India)
Muhammad in Lahore, 1668 (now in Pakistan). History of India Flags of the Mughal Empire List of Mongol states Mughal-Mongol genealogy Islam in South Asia...
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The French East India Company (French: Compagnie française pour le commerce des Indes orientales) was a joint-stock company founded in France on 1 September...
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Savdhaan India – India Fights Back (transl. Attention India! – India Fights Back) is an Indian Hindi-language crime currently broadcasting on Star Bharat...
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History of the British Raj (redirect from British colonialism in India)
system of governance was instituted in 1858 when the rule of the East India Company was transferred to the Crown in the person of Queen Victoria. The British...
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Bombay Army (redirect from Commander-in Chief of Bombay)
presidencies of British India. It was established in 1668 and governed by the East India Company until the Government of India Act 1858 transferred all...
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