KERALA PSC / KERALA HISTORY / THE GROWTH OF BRITISH POWER IN KERALA / NOTES

 

KERALA PSC / KERALA HISTORY / THE GROWTH OF BRITISH POWER IN KERALA / NOTES

KERALA PSC / KERALA HISTORY / THE GROWTH OF BRITISH POWER IN KERALA / NOTES

 

·       First Englishman who came to Kerala was perhaps Master Ralph Fitch. He is known as “Pioneer Englishman”

·       The 1616 Captain Keeling arrived in Calicut with three ships which brought Sir Thomas Roe on his embassy to the court of Jahangir

·       British merchants exported pepper to England for the first time from Cochin in 1626

·       First English factory in Kerala was set up at Vizhinjam

·       In 1695 the English constructed the Anjengo fort with the permission of Attingal Rani. Construction was started in 1684

·       The Attingal Outbreak was on 15 April 1721. It was between the natives and the British traders. 140 Englishmen were massacred by the natives. The event occurred near Anjengo.

·       Attingal Revolt was the first organized revolt against the English in Kerala.

 

 

KERALA PSC / KERALA HISTORY / THE GROWTH OF BRITISH POWER IN KERALA / NOTES

 

·       The April 1723 a formal treaty was concluded between the English East India Company and the king of Travancore. It was the first treaty negotiated by the English East India Company with an Indian State. This was a treaty of friendship.

·       By 1800 Cochin came under the control of the English East India Company

·       By the treaty concluded in 1795 Travancore accepted the Supremacy of the Company

·       Col. Macaulay was appointed as the first British Resident in Travancore

·       The treaty of 1805 which was negotiated by Velu Thampi Dalawa resulted in the loss of the political freedom of Travancore.

 

 

KERALA PSC / KERALA HISTORY / THE GROWTH OF BRITISH POWER IN KERALA / NOTES