Question

The Portuguese hold over trade from Surat was challenged and broken by​

Answer 1

Explanation:

THe 17th Century was a very different time. A golden age for some, it was a time when the world eyed ‘Hindustan’ with envy and desire. And every day, it seemed like, more and more of the firangis would come to the stunning and bejewelled court of Jahangir, Padshah of Hindustan, hoping to curry favours and find a toehold. And in those heady days of power and pleasure, it seemed beyond belief that these strange pale-faced foreigners could ever hold sway over the magnificence that was India.