what advantages British East India company enjoy over French and Dutch companies?
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Explanation:
When the English arrived, India was a country with a large population of Hindu peasants ruled by Muslim Mughals princes. The original Portuguese trading outpost had been taken over by the Dutch. The British got their start in Bengal and Madras, namely because no other European powers were there. the Dutch occupied the Portugese possessions in the east.
Economic competition among the European nations led to the founding of commercial English company agents became familiar with Indian customs and languages, including Persian, the unifying official language under the Mughals. In many ways, the English agents of that period lived like Indians, intermarried willingly, and a large number of them never returned to their home country. The knowledge of India thus acquired and the mutual ties forged with Indian trading groups gave the English a competitive edge over other Europeans. The French commercial interest--Compagnie des Indes Orientales (East India Company, founded in 1664)--came late, but the French also established themselves in India, emulating the precedents set by their competitors as they founded their enclave at Pondicherr