When did the British East India company really become important and how quickly it replaced Hollands position?

also, why Holland declined in importance as a trade nation? was Holland the capital region or Amsterdam was the capital city of the Hanseatic League during its existance?



did the British east India company replace the Hanseatic League? or when and why it switched to London? and which other cities in Britain and why?



how Holland became after and how much colony area it lost and why?



thansk for your answers!When did the British East India company really become important and how quickly it replaced Hollands position?
Hanseatic League is a purely a trade arrangement encompassing Baltic coast %26amp; the Netherlands. They had a chain of trading posts extending beyond, including one at London. These trading posts became significant enclaves. The London Kontor, established in 1320, stood west of London Bridge near Upper Thames Street.

British (English) East India Company was given a Royal charter by Queen Elizabeth I. It started operations in India at Masulipatam (on East coast) %26amp; Surat (West coast) ports that lasted till 1857 when the Crown took over proclaiming the (England's) Queen Victoria as the Empress of Indian Empire. Gradually the Company's network of factories expanded. Then they built two forts - Fort St.George at a fishing hamlet that now is Chennai ('Madras' before) city. The other was Fort William near Kalighat, that grew up to Kolkata (Calcutta) city. Both were established in late 1600s. Then the Company started to dabble in local politics or rather they were sucked in it. Near Chennai they had this succession ot the throne of 'Carnatic' in issue. French too joined the rivalry. But the British won it and their protege became CarnaticNawab.

Robert Clive (then Captain) played a prominent part and his clever strategy won for th British their position. In Bengal around Ft.William another succession war was played out for the Murshidabad throne. There was a war on the plains of Plassey (Palash is a popular native tree; called 'flame of the forest' due to its vermilion to orange coloured flowering in summer) in 1857m. Again Robert Clive won the war laying the foundation to the political career of the Company, who virtually ran the Bengal government with sole rights to collect taxes on behalf of Bengal Nawab. But in Buxaur war (1964), two hundred miles to the west they established their first province and firmed up the hold on Bengal that has become Company property. They established their capital at Ft.William and Col. Robert Clive became the Governor of Company possessions. His successor Warren Hastings expanded it like an Empire and assumed the title, 'Governor-General'.

Holland (the Netherlands or 'Dutch') were not in India, but in Sumatra and Java Islands of present day Indonesia. Parallel to the 'Company' they had their own 'Dutch East India Company'.

There were a few Dutch factories on South indian coast who quickly wound up operations to concentrate on their Island possessions of East Indies.Danish factory at a place called 'Tranquebar' the point where the coast juts towards the northern tip (Jaffna) of Sri Lanka. It was the only Danish presence in india and was finally closed.When did the British East India company really become important and how quickly it replaced Hollands position?
You are getting a little confused here, I think. The Dutch East India company traded in the east as did the British East India Company The VOC as it was known was highly successful - it declined due to maladministration rather than anything else and was a spent force by the end of the 17th century having enjoyed success for about 200 years. The British East India Company was founded during the 16th century and operated in different sphers (principally the Indian mainland and was a private commercial enterprise that flourished until the middle of the 19th century when it went pear shaped due to the Indian mutiny. At this point the Crown stepped in and took over the company and the British Raj began - which would last another 100 years. It was administered from London's Leadenhall area and once nationalised the hq building was demolished soon after and is now the site of the iconic Lloyd's Insurance Building