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Calcutta: Copies of letters received: Dec 1702 to Nov 1703, Jan to Nov 1704 : Correspondence 1702/12-1704/11.

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Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2018.
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Adam Matthew Digital (Firm)
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Description: IOR/G/7: Factory Records: Calcutta, 1690-1704. Diaries and consultations, 1690-1708; copies of letters despatched, 1690-1705; copies of letters received, 1690-1704. 11 volumes.Origin: The 1680s saw an outbreak of hostilities between the Company factors in Bengal and the Mogul emperor, Aurangzeb. As a result, the emperor confiscated all the Company's factories in his dominions. The agent at Hugli, Job Charnock, retired 26 miles down the Hoogly river to Sutanati and re-established his factory there. The new settlement gradually extended to Kalikata (Calcutta) and Govindpur; in 1689 it was decided to make Calcutta the headquarters of the Company's Bengal factories. The settlement was chosen because it was at the highest point of the river that seagoing vessels could reach. In 1696 the Company was given permission to fortify the settlement and in 1698 it obtained the right to purchase the towns of Sutanati, Govindpur and Calcutta. Fort William was completed in 1702 and the settlement grew rapidly. In 1707 it was raised to the status of presidency. The records in this sub-series deal only with this early period of Calcutta's history. The town subsequently became famous when its capture by the Nawab of Bengal in 1756 set in train the events that led to the Company's new role as territorial administrator in India.Related Resources: See also Miscellaneous Factory Records (IOR/G/40/9, 14-15). The diaries and consultations continue in the Bengal General Proceedings (IOR/P).
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East India Company Factory Records (1608-1858). A 'factory' was a trading post where a number of merchants, or factors, resided. When company ships arrived at the factories, ships' merchants were thus enabled to exchange goods for trading immediately instead of having to wait to make deals with local merchants. Factories were run by a chief factor and a council of factors. The 'Factory Records' is an artificially-created sub-fonds; the records of individual Company factories consist mainly of consultations (records of administrative decisions and of correspondence), diaries (records of daily activities), letters received, copies of letters sent and collections of papers on particular subjects.
AMDigital Reference: IOR/G/7/11.
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Reproduction of: Calcutta: Copies of letters received: Dec 1702 to Nov 1703, Jan to Nov 1704 Dec 1702 - Nov 1704.
Location of Originals:
The British Library
Copyright Note:
The British Library Board
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