DiplomacyEast India Company rule
Dutch possessions on the Coromandel Coast pass to Britain
· Pulicat
Under the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824, the Dutch ceded their Coromandel settlements, including Pulicat, to the British on 1 June 1825.
The Dutch had held Pulicat and other settlements on the Coromandel Coast since the 17th century. British troops occupied them in 1795, and they were restored to Dutch rule after the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814, with the transfer completed in 1818. Under the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824, signed in London, the Netherlands gave up its Indian possessions. Dutch Coromandel was ceded to the British on 1 June 1825, ending Dutch rule on the Tamil coast.
