Advent of British in India | Modern History India | Episode 2
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In this second episode of
In this second episode of our series on Modern History, we learn about the Advent of British in India which comes under the subject of Modern History of India.
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The British East India Company was formed in 1599 under a charter granted by Queen Elizabeth in 1600. The British Joint Stock Company, as it was known earlier, was founded by John Watts and George White for trade with Asian nations in the south and south-east.
The British East India Company came to India as traders in spices, a very important commodity in Europe back then as it was used to preserve meat. Apart from that, they primarily traded in silk, cotton, indigo dye, tea and opium.
Mughal emperor Jahangir granted a farman to Captain William Hawkins permitting the English to erect a factory at Surat in 1613. In 1615, Thomas Roe, the Ambassador to James I, got an imperial farman from Jahangir to trade and establish factories all across the Mughal empire. British company started to eclipse out the other European trading companies in their rising power.
A number of trading posts were established all over the east and west coasts of India and British communities developed in the three major trading towns of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay.
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Episode 1: Advent of Portuguese in India - Advent of Portuguese (Europeans) in I...
The British East India Company was formed in 1599 under a charter granted by Queen Elizabeth in 1600. The British Joint Stock Company, as it was known earlier, was founded by John Watts and George White for trade with Asian nations in the south and south-east.
The British East India Company came to India as traders in spices, a very important commodity in Europe back then as it was used to preserve meat. Apart from that, they primarily traded in silk, cotton, indigo dye, tea and opium.
Mughal emperor Jahangir granted a farman to Captain William Hawkins permitting the English to erect a factory at Surat in 1613. In 1615, Thomas Roe, the Ambassador to James I, got an imperial farman from Jahangir to trade and establish factories all across the Mughal empire. British company started to eclipse out the other European trading companies in their rising power.
A number of trading posts were established all over the east and west coasts of India and British communities developed in the three major trading towns of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay.
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https://www.panaceatutor.com or https://www.panaceabharti.com
For further queries related to the concepts, please contact us through the below given link.
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For more information, visit https://www.panaceatutor.com or contact 8054407407, 9888405906.
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#AdventofBritish #AdventofEuropeans #ModernHistory #IndianHistory #EastIndiaCompany #Upsc #BritishIndia #PanaceaTutor
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