The next to arrive were the Dutch, with their main base in Ceylon. The British—who set up a trading post in the west coast port of Surat in 1619—and the French. The internal conflicts among Indian kingdoms gave opportunities to the European traders to gradually establish political influence and appropriate lands. Although these continental European powers controlled various coastal regions of southern and eastern India during the ensuing century, they eventually lost all their territories in India to the British islanders, with the exception of the French outposts of Pondichéry and Chandernagore, the Dutch port of Travancore, and the Portuguese colonies of Goa, Daman and Diu.[citation needed]
భారతీయ రాజ్యాలు తీసుకున్న ఏ చర్యలు యూరోపియన్ వ్యాపారులకు భూములను స్వాధీనం చేసుకోవడానికి, ప్రభావితం చేయడానికి అవకాశం ఇచ్చాయి?
internal conflicts