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The Danish East India Company was established in 1616 and a Danish settlement was established at [[Tranquebar ]] in 1620. There was also a Danish settlement at [[Serampore]] near [[Calcutta]]. They were more important for the missionary activities carried on there than for commerce. These settlements were perhaps the first perceptable cultural impingemnt of the Protestant West on India.
Source : A History of India (Volume Two) (1978) by Percival Spear p.68