Question

Answer in Brief- [Frome Trade to territory] why did farman of Aurangzeb seem to be beneficial to the British East India Company?

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Answer 1

India in 1686. Much of the country was under the Mughal empire with Aurangzeb well into his Deccan campaign. The British East India Company had a few dots here and there on the map. Some factories in Surat, some presence in Bengal, Fort St. George in the South and a bunch of islands called Bombay, which England’s King Charles II had received in dowry from the Portuguese and had been given on rent to the EIC, finding it a useless piece of marshland.