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The English established their first factory in Bengal in 1651 at __________
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Hooghly(Hugli) was also the first English settlement (1651) in Lower Bengal; it was abandoned in 1690 for Calcutta (now Kolkata). Chinsurah was an important 17th-century settlement of the Dutch, who built a factory (trading station) there in 1656.
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