Question

how did the British acquire the right to trade in india?​

Answer 1

Answer:

In the late 1500s, European explorers started sailing east for trading purposes. ... Concerned that the English were falling behind to the Dutch on these new trading routes, on the 31st December 1600 Queen Elizabeth I granted over 200 English merchants the right to trade in the East Indies.

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Answer 2

The East India Company (EIC) was an English and later British joint-stock company founded in 1600.[2] It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia), and later with Qing China. The company ended up seizing control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent, colonised parts of Southeast Asia and Hong Kong after the First Opium War, and maintained trading posts and colonies in the Persian Gulf Residencies.[3] The company is also known as the Honourable East India Company (HEIC), East India Trading Company (EITC), the English East India Company or the British East India Company, and informally known as John Company,[4] Company Bahadur,[5] or simply The Company....