IF you paid $40 for the DVD of "Lawrence of Arabia" when Columbia released it with great fanfare in April 2001, you probably felt hoodwinked when, this autumn, the studio brought out a new, improved version for two-thirds the price and (sorry) no factory trade-in for your not-so-old but flawed copy.
The British established their first Indian factory (trading post) at Surat (1612).
Chinsurah was an important 17th-century settlement of the Dutch, who built a factory (trading station) there in 1656.
Madras was the shortened name of the fishing village Madraspatnam, where the British East India Company built a fort and factory (trading post) in 1639 40.
In 1613 he helped to establish an English factory (trading post) for the East India Company at Hirado, in Kyushu northwest of Nagasaki.
He was made superintendent of the French factory (trading station) in Chandernagore, Bengal, in 1731 and 11 years later was appointed governor-general of all French establishments in India.
Vasco da Gama, discoverer of the sea route to India (1498), established the first Portuguese factory (trading station) there in 1502, and the Portuguese viceroy Afonso de Albuquerque built the first European fort in India there in 1503.
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The first division was composed of nine naus (carracks) and two round caravels, and was headed to Calicut (today more often known as Kozhikode) in India with the goal of establishing trade relations and a factory (trading post).
"Businesses want to work, invest, build factories, trade," he said.
