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[[File:Drawing Banquibazar.jpg|thumb|Map of "Banquibazar" and "Hydſapour" by the [[Ganges]]. 1764 copy of the original drawing (c. 1730)]]<br />
'''Bankipur''' was an ancient village on the [[River Hooghly|Hugli]] river located in what is now [[West Bengal]], north of [[Barrackpore]], a little north of [[Ishapore]]. It is now a suburb of Barrackpore and is not to be confused with [[Bankipur (Khejuri)]], a village located on the coast (at {{coord|21.76|N|87.86|E|name=Bankipur}}).{{sfn|VM Infotech staff|2011|loc=Bankipur}}<br />
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==History==<br />
[[File:Hooghly River 1749.jpg|thumb|The location of the European factories along the Hooghly in 1749. {{lang|fr|Isapor ou Banquibazar}} is opposing French [[Goretty]] and Danish [[Serampor]].]]<br />
[[File:Banquibazar palace.jpg|thumb|Palace of the governor of Banquibazar in the 1720s]]<br />
Bankipur was famous as the principal settlement of the [[Ostend Company]], the one great effort made by the [[Habsburg Monarchy|Austrian Empire]] to secure a foothold in [[India]]. The Ostend Company was formed in 1722–1723, and with a capital of less than a million sterling founded two settlements, one at Coblom ([[Covelong]]) on the [[Chennai|Madras]] coast between the British company at Madras and the Dutch one at [[Sadras]], and the other on the Hugli between the British company at [[Kolkata|Calcutta]] and the Dutch [[Hugli-Chuchura|Chinsura]]. Both the British and Dutch were offended and in 1727, in order to obtain the European guarantee for the [[Pragmatic Sanction of 1713|Pragmatic Sanction]], the court of [[Vienna]] resolved to sacrifice the Company and suspended its charter. It became [[Bankruptcy|bankrupt]] in 1784 and ceased to exist in 1793. But in the meantime in 1733 the British and Dutch convinced the [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] general at Hugli to attack Bankipur. He attacked Bankipur and the garrison of only fourteen soldiers escaped and set sail for Europe. Thus imperial Austrian interests disappeared from India.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|loc=Bankipur}}<br />
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==References ==<br />
*{{Citation|year=2011|url=http://www.behindcity.com/explore/india/west-bengal/bankipur/ |title=Bankipur|work=behindCity |publisher=MVM Infotech |access-date=25 November 2011}}<br />
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* {{EB1911|wstitle=Bankipur|volume=3|page=320}}<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
* {{Cite EB1911|first=George |last=Edmundson|authorlink=George Edmundson|wstitle=Ostend Company|volume=20|pages=356-357}}<br />
* Walter Kelly Firminger, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=9dRGAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA241 Thacker's guide to Calcutta]'', 1906, pp.&nbsp;241–2, which also cites another name for the settlement, Bankibazár.<br />
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