15-697: Bolgatty Palace is a former palace built by the Dutch in India on Bolgatty Island in Kochi , Kerala . The palace was built in 1744 by Dutch traders and later extended and gardens were landscaped around it. The building was then the Governor's palace for the commander of Dutch Malabar , and in 1909, was leased to the British . It served as the home of the British governors, being the seat of
30-587: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a palace in India is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to the British Empire (1497–1997) is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Dutch India Dutch India ( Dutch : Nederlands Indië ) consisted of the settlements and trading posts of the Dutch East India Company on
45-513: The British Resident of Cochin during the British Raj . In 1947, when India attained independence , the palace became the property of the state and was converted into a heritage hotel resort. Bolgatty Palace has a swimming pool, 9-hole golf course, ayurvedic centre, daily Kathakali performances, and is a holiday destination for tourists. This article about a hotel or resort in India
60-679: The Dutch West Indies (present-day Suriname and the former Netherlands Antilles ). Dutch presence on the Indian subcontinent lasted from 1605 to 1825. Merchants of the Dutch East India Company first established themselves in Dutch Coromandel , notably Pulicat , as they were looking for textiles to exchange with the spices they traded in the East Indies. Dutch Suratte and Dutch Bengal were established in 1616 and 1627 respectively. After
75-478: The Indian subcontinent . It is only used as a geographical definition, as there was never a political authority ruling all Dutch India. Instead, Dutch India was divided into the governorates Dutch Ceylon and Dutch Coromandel , the commandment Dutch Malabar , and the directorates Dutch Bengal and Dutch Suratte . The Dutch Indies, on the other hand, were the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia ) and
90-720: The Malay Peninsula in 1819 by Sir Stamford Raffles exacerbated tensions between the two nations, especially as the Dutch claimed that the treaty signed between Raffles and the Sultan of Johor was invalid and that the Sultanate of Johor was under the Dutch sphere of influence. Dutch trading rights in British India and former Dutch possessions in the area were also points of contention. In 1820, under pressure from British merchants with interests in
105-716: The Spice Islands and the Cape Colony . In the second half of the eighteenth century, the Dutch lost their influence more and more following the Travancore–Dutch War . The Kew Letters relinquished all Dutch colonies to the British, to prevent them from being overrun by the French. Although Dutch Coromandel and Dutch Bengal were restored to Dutch rule by the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814 , they returned to British rule owing to
120-614: The Strait of Malacca and their Indian colonies in exchange for confirmation of their claims south of the strait, including the British colony of Bencoolen . The final treaty was signed on 17 March 1824 by Fagel and Canning. The treaty was ratified by the UK on 30 April 1824 and by the Netherlands on 2 June 1824. The ratifications were exchanged at London on 8 June 1824. The Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824 officially demarcated two territories: Malaya , which
135-602: The British, George Canning and Charles Williams-Wynn . The Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824, designed to solve issues arising from British occupation of Dutch colonial possessions during the Napoleonic Wars , as well as trading rights existing for hundreds of years in the Spice Islands between the two nations, addressed a wide array of issues but did not clearly describe limitations of expansion by either side in maritime Southeast Asia. The British establishment of Singapore on
150-783: The Dutch conquered Ceylon from the Portuguese in 1656, they took the Portuguese forts on the Malabar coast five years later as well, as both were major spice producers, to create a Dutch monopoly for the spice trade. Apart from textiles, the items traded in Dutch India include precious stones , indigo , and silk across the Indian Peninsula, saltpeter and opium in Dutch Bengal, and pepper in Dutch Malabar. Indian slaves were exported to
165-552: The Far East, negotiations to clarify the situation in Southeast Asia started. Negotiations between Castlereagh, Canning's predecessor, and Fagel started on 20 July 1820. The Dutch were adamant that the British should abandon Singapore, but Castlereagh was unsure exactly how Singapore had even been acquired. At first, only noncontroversial issues such as free navigation rights and the elimination of piracy were agreed upon. Discussions on
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#1732872883528180-662: The Netherlands, including: Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824 The Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824 , also known as the Treaty of London ( Dutch : Verdrag van Londen ), was a treaty signed between the United Kingdom and the Netherlands in London on 17 March 1824. The treaty was to resolve disputes arising from the execution of the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814 . For the Dutch, it was signed by Hendrik Fagel and Anton Reinhard Falck , and for
195-626: The provisions of the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824 . Under the terms of the treaty, all transfers of property and establishments were to take place on 1 March 1825. By the middle of 1825, therefore, the Dutch had lost their last trading posts in India. Dutch mints in Cochin , Masulipatnam , Nagapatnam , Pondicherry (for the five years 1693–98 when the Dutch had gained control from the French), and Pulicat issued coins modeled on local Indian coinages. Coins struck included: The Dutch also imported coins struck in
210-456: The subject were suspended on 5 August 1820, and did not resume until 1823, when the commercial value of Singapore was understood by the British. Negotiations resumed in December 1823, centred around establishment of clear spheres of influence in the region. The Dutch, realising that the growth of Singapore could not be curbed, pressed for an exchange in which they would abandon their claims north of
225-465: Was ruled by the United Kingdom ; and the Dutch East Indies , which was ruled by the Netherlands . The successor states of Malaya are Malaysia and Singapore , and the successor state of the Dutch East Indies is Indonesia . The line that separated the spheres of influence between the British and the Dutch ultimately became the border between Indonesia and Malaysia (with a small segment becoming
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