Company
|
Estb.
|
Head Quarter/Capital
|
Portuguese East India company
|
1498
|
Cochin (1510-30), Goa (1530-1961)
|
English East India Company
|
1600
|
West coast: Surat (1608-87), Bombay (from 1687) East coast:
Koromandal, MAsulipattanum (1611-41), Madras (from 1641) Bengal : Under
Madras (up to 1700) Calcutta (from 1700)
|
Dutch East India Company
|
1602
|
East coast : Koromandal, Pulicut (up to 1690), Negapattanum (from
1690 ); Bengal : Hugli (from 1655)
|
Danish East India Company
|
1616
|
Serampur (Bengal): 1676-1845
|
French East India Company
|
1664
|
Surat (1668-73), Pondicherry (1673-1954)
|
Note: Danish
company was forced to sell all their settlements in India to the British in
1845.