BANKIPUR—BANKO T Bankipur.
— Ancient
and
the map,
site
its
military transactions
period.
on the
Hugh
river,
near the modern
of this village has disappeared from
can only be identified from the records of the the last century, and from a chart of that
in
formed the principal settlement of the
It
Company
village
The name
Palta above Barrackpur.
77
The Emperor of
in India.
ill-fated
Ostend
Austria, desirous of procuring a
Company
share of the East Indian trade, incorporated the Ostend
In
722-23, its factors being chiefly persons who had served in the Dutch and English companies. This was the one great effort made by Germany r
to secure a foothold in India.
twenty millions of
livres (less
The Ostend Company,
with a capital of
than a million sterling), founded two
settle-
ments one at ‘Coblom’ (Covelong) between the English Madras and the Dutch Sadras on the south-eastern coast, the other between the English Calcutta and the Dutch Chinsura on the Hugh' in Bengal. Both of these German settlements were regarded with animosity by the an animosity felt also by the French, whose English and the Dutch adjacent settlements at Pondicherri on the Madras coast, and Chandarnagar on the Hugh', were also threatened by the new company. The result was, that in order to obtain the European guarantee for the pragmatic sanction in 1727, the Court of Vienna resolved to sacrifice the Ostend Company. To save its honour, the sacrifice took the form of a suspension of the Company’s charter for seven years. But the Company was practically doomed by the maritime powers After a miserable existence it became bankrupt in of Europe. Meanwhile, the Dutch 1784, and was formally abolished in 1793. and English in Bengal had taken the law into their own hands. stirred up the Muhammadan general {Faujddr) at In 1733 Hugh to pick a quarrel, in the name of the Delhi Emperor, with the little German Settlement at Banki'pur, which lay about eight miles below Hugh town on the opposite side of the river. The Muham;
—
)
madan
troops
besieged Banki'pur 7 .and
the
garrison,
consisting
of
only 14 persons, after a despairing resistance against overwhelming numbers, abandoned the place, and set sail for Europe. The
Ostend agent lost his right arm by a cannon ball during the engagement and the Ostend Company, together with the German interests which it represented, became thenceforth merely a name in Bengal
—a
name
which, as already mentioned, soon disappeared from the
maps.
Bankomundl. height,
2080
Bankoti. District,
— Mountain peak
— Seaport
Bombay
in the north
of Bod State, Orissa
Lat. 20° 42' 24" n., long. 84° 20' 18"
feet.
on the creek of the same name
Presidency.
Lat.
e.
in
Ratnagiri
17° 58' 30" n., long. 73° 5' 10" e.
Situated on the Savitri river, 10 miles north-north-west from Savaradnig fort.
The channel
is
on the south-east
side of the river entrance,
and
