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Danish India is a term for the former colonies of Denmark in India . They included the town of Tranquebar in present-day Tamil Nadu state, and the Nicobar Islands , currently part of India's Union Territory of the Andaman And Nicobar Islands . HISTORY The Danish colonies in India were founded by the Danish East India Company , which was active from the 17th to the 19th centuries. The Danish colony's capital was Fort Daneborg at Tranquebar, established in 1620 , on the Coromandel Coast . The Danish also established several commercial outposts, governed from Tranquebar:
In 1779 it was turned over by the chartered company and became a Danish crown colony. In 1789 the Andaman Islands become a British possession. During the Napoleonic Wars , the British attacked Danish shipping, and devastated the Danish East India Company's India trade; in May 1801 - August 1802 and 1808 - 20 September 1815 the British even occupy Dansborg and Frederiksnagore. The Danish colonies went into decline, and the British ultimately took possession of them, making them part of , and Tranquebar and most minor settlements in 1845 (11 October 1845 Frederiksnagore sold; 7 November 1845 other continental Danish India settlements sold); on 16 October 1869 all Danish rights to the Nicobar Islands, which since 1848 had been gradually abandoned, were sold to Britain. SOURCES AND REFERENCES |