The Company was accredited as a legitimate exploiter of Mughal economy and in this, Nurjahan's help was instrumental, The decline of Indian merchants was also due to this lady who desired to be the protectresse' of the English interests in Mughal india for her own seaborne commerce. The first establishment of the English factory at Surat in 1618 is repeated adnauseam and the present work has pricked the bubble. Again notwithstanding the researches of early historians, certain heresies still continue to hold the field. From Factory to fort and from Fort to Empire was the design of the English East India Company in India.Īs far as the Company is concerned, not much is known of the unofficial beginnings of the growth of England's commercial interests in India.
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