Question

6. Why was Surat a famous trading centre? Why did it decline at the end of the seventeenth century?

Answer 1

Answer:

British captured when they started control over india

Answer 2

Answer:

Surat was located at a Gujarat where the climatic conditions are quite good for mass production of cotton and also well drained region it was. and also too near to the shore for transport of goods.

but with the gradual increase in British industries led all its cotton to go in hands of British and hence The Indian markets collapse.