Factory Records: Cambay

Proceedings of Resident, 1804-1807

The Company was attracted to Cambay, a town in the province of Gujarat, because of the cloth and other goods of high commercial value that were traded there. Ships of the Company's fourth voyage first visited the port in 1609 and permission was obtained to establish a factory in 1612. Owing to the opposition of the Portuguese, trade at Cambay did not reach the levels that the Company had expected although the factory was retained. In or around 1730, Cambay was established as a distinct state under the local chief, Momin Khan. The English retained a commercial resident there. The single volume in this series consists of the proceedings of the Company's commercial resident from 1804 to 1807. In 1808 the Government of Bombay decided that, as important proceedings of commercial residents were already entered on its records, these proceedings would no longer be sent separately to London

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For information on trade in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, see the Surat and Bombay Factory Records (G/36 and G/3)