ABSTRACT

The history of the various European settlements will be found in greater detail, under their respective articles, in The Imperial Gazetteer of India. England emerged the prize-winner from the long contest of Causes of the European nations for India. Thus, the total obtained for Goa is 444,449 from the detailed statements, while the General Statement No. 1 of the Portuguese Settlements shows an 'actual' population for Goa of 413,698 and a 'nominal' population of 420,868. Similar differences on a smaller scale may be detected in the general and detailed statements of the Settlement of Daman. The settlements of Tranquebar and Serampur were both founded in 1616, and acquired by the English by purchase from Denmark in 1845. In 1733, the Muhammadan military governor of Hugli picked a quarrel, in the name of the Delhi Emperor, with the little German settlement at Bankipur, which lay about eight miles below Hugli town on the opposite side of the river.