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Standard Reference VerifiedDuring the first quarter of the seventeenth century (1600–1625), the English East India Company established factories at Surat (1612–13), Agra, Ahmedabad, and Broach (present-day Bharuch, 1619) in western India, and at Masulipatnam (1611) and Armagaon (1626) in the south. Chicacole (Srikakulam) and Trichinopoly (Tiruchirappalli) did not house English factories during this initial quarter-century period.
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