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Article: Towards a new imperialism in eighteenth-century India: Dupleix, La Bourdonnais and the French compagnie des Indes.
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- Portuguese Studies
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- January 1, 2000
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In the popular mind India is bound up with British colonialism. In fact, before the 1750s several countries, through companies of trade, had colonial ventures in India. Furthermore, these colonial outposts coexisted in a state of relative tranquillity. Traders went to India, often hoping to reap great fortunes and to return home as wealthy men. While they competed with other European nationals for trade, aggressive territorial expansion was not an integral part of their programme. Only in the mid-eighteenth century did the nature of the colonial project in India change. This article explores the origins and aspects of this change as catalyzed by the Anglo-French conflict ...
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Dictionary definition: French East India Company
A Dictionary of World History;
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...French East India Company A commercial organization ... with DUTCH and English EAST INDIA COMPANIES . Until the 1740s ... by an ambitious governor, Dupleix, the Company then made a ... challenge English influence in India, notably by alliances with ...
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