Question

Who among the following established a factory at Sutanuti and made Zamindari on the three villages named Sutanuti, Kolkata and Govindapur?
1. Job Charnock
2. Captain Hawkins
3. Francis Dey
4. None of the above

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 1 : Job Charnock

The correct answer is Option(1) i.e.Job Charnock

• Job Charnock:
  • Job Charnock established a factory at Sutanuti village and made Zamindari on the three villages of Sutanuti, Kolkata, and Govindapur.
  • These villages later grew into the city of Calcutta.
  • He was an employee and administrator of the East India Company and traditionally regarded as the founder of the city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta).
• Captain William Hawkins:
  • In 1608 AD, the British East India Company sent captain William Hawkins to the court of the Mughal emperor Jahangir to secure royal patronage.
  • He succeeded in getting the royal permit for the Company to establish its factories at various places on the western coast of India.
  • Hawkins was a representative of the English East India Company notable for being the commander of hector, the first company ship to anchor at surat in India on 24 August 1608.
  • Hawkins traveled to Agra to negotiate consent for a factory from Emperor Jahangir in 1609.
• Francis Dey:    
  • Francis Dey was an army surgeon and naturalist in the Madras Presidency who later became the Inspector-General of Fisheries in India.
  • A pioneer ichthyologist, he described more than three hundred fishes in the two-volume work on The Fishes of India.