The Dutch became the local elites up until the British East India Company overthrew them in 1825 as a result of illegal commerce and the zamindari of three villages. This is the account of how the Dutch East India Company sank as its corrupt officials made their fortunes in Bengal.
While the British and the French had achieved success in Bengal, author GC Klerk de Reus wrote in a Dutch colonial journal in 1875 that "the Dutch [East India] Company could not even muster the basic strength ...
