For about eighteen years after Farrukhsiyar’s firman, the trade of the English Company on the western coast suffered from the quarrels between the Marathas and the Portuguese, and the... Read more
In Bengal, where the staples of commerce could not be purchased near the coast but had to be procured from places lying far up the waterways of the province, the Company was subject to payme... Read more
The early voyages of the English Company were directed to Sumatra, Java and the Moluccas in order to get a share of the spice trade. It was in 1608 that the first attempt was made to establi... Read more
Commercial interests drew the Dutch also to India, where they established factories in Gujarat, on the Coromandel Coast and in Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, entering deep into the interio... Read more
FOREIGNERS could enter India mainly through two routes–the well known land route across the northwest frontier and the sea-route. The Muslims from Ghazni and Ghur, Samarqand and Kabul... Read more
