File:Drawing Banquibazar.jpg

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English: Drawing showing the territory of the factory of Banquibazar-Hydsiapour in Bengal, the headquarters of the Ostend Company in India. The north is pointing to the left on this drawing. Done during the administration of the governor, Alexander Hume ("M. d'Hume, directeur de la Compagnie des Indes" as is written in the upper right-hand corner of the drawing). 1764 copy of the original drawing (c. 1730).
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Source Antwerp Municipal Archives (Belgium), and Archives nationales, Cartes et Plans (Paris). (reproduced in J. Parmentier, De holle Compagnie, Hilversum, 1992, and in J. Evereart, A Desireable Takeover : Banquibazar in Bengal, 1745-1788, Bulletin de l'Académie royale des sciences d'outre-mer, Brussels, 2003
Author Ostend Company, c. 1730 (1764)

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