Dutch Suratte

Pieter van den Broecke established a Dutch trading post in Suratte in 1616, after previous efforts had failed in the years before.

The Dutch East India Company was compelled to form this post after the sultan of Aceh no longer allowed them to buy cheap cotton on the local market.

In 1668, Dutch and English traders were joined by the French, who established their first trading post on the Indian subcontinent there.

However, before Suratte could be restored to the Dutch, hostilities in Europe had resumed, and Van Albedyll and his company were made prisoners of war on 30 August 1803.

[9][10] Agra features a mausoleum for Jan Willem Hessing (1739–1803), a Dutch soldier who became a military adviser to Maharaja Mahadaji Shinde.

Dutch translation of a farman issued by Jahangir , the first known Firman directed towards the VOC in Gujarat , contained in a letter from P. G. van Ravesteyn and A. W. Goeree to J. P. Coen , dated 12th March 1618. The farman was issued after intense lobbying by VOC factors during Jahangir's visit to Ahmedabad. The farman granted few notable assurances to the factors, such as freedom to trade at any Mughal ports, autonomy to govern their affairs, application of normal customs duty (believed to be 2.5% during Jahangir's reign), [ 3 ] freedom to trade with local merchants and profess their religion. [ 4 ] [ 5 ]