East India Company Factories
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17th century Factories
Listed below are some of the early trading posts set up by the East India Company. The Company initially concentrated on the East Indies spice trade but was vigorously opposed by the Dutch. The Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824 saw the cessation of all Dutch activities in the Indian subcontinent and all English activities in the East Indies.
Bantam
The first trading post set up in 1603 at Banten, Java by James Lancaster. Initially the factories on the Coromandel Coast reported to Bantam. The factory was closed in 1683.
Tidore
Pulau Tidore in the Moluccas. Founded 1604.
Masulipatam
Machilipatnam on the Coromandel Coast. The first trading post on the subcontinent was founded in 1611.
Surat
Surat in Gujerat. Sir Thomas Roe obtained permission from Emperor Jahangir to found a factory in 1612.
Sambas
Sambas on the northwest Borneo coast founded in 1614.
Tekoo
Tiku West Sumatra founded in 1615.
Burhanpore
Burhanpore in Bengal founded in 1616.
Polaroon
Pulau Run, Banda Islands, Indonesia. Founded 1616.
Calicut
Calicut on the Malabar Coast. Founded in 1616.
Armegon
Armegon (Blackwood Harbour) on the Coromandel Coast. Factory founded in 1626. Modern town is Durgarajupatnam.
Pipley
Pipili, Orissa. Permission granted in 1634 to found a factory.
Madras
Francis Day, the Chief of the Armegon factory, obtained a grant from the local ruler to control a strip of coast at the village of Madraspatnam in 1639. The consrtruction of Fort St George began in 1640.