Question

why did the conflict arise between british and aurgezeb​​

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Explanation:

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.

Bengal at the time was under the control of Shaiste Khan. The same Shaiste Khan who had his fingers (thumb as per some accounts) chopped away by Chhatrapati Shivaji. The firman (order) granting the East India Company three factories in what would eventually become the city of Kolkata was still 30 years away. The Battle of Plassey was three generations away. But for decisions taken in 1686, that future almost did not happen! Aurangzeb nearly destroyed the East India Company! Surprised? Read on.

In 1680, Aurangzeb allowed the British to trade at Surat by paying duties of 3.5 percent. An earlier law (1650) made by Shah Shuja as subhedar of Bengal had allowed the British to trade in Bengal for an annual fee of Rs 3,000. The EIC wanted to carry out all India trade on the basis of just this fee, or alternately trade anywhere just by paying 3.5 percent on the goods landed in Surat! Both demands were squashed.

In January 1686, six companies of British soldiers landed at Hughli after mistaking the route to Chittagong. The arguments over the duties and trade tariffs had brought the East India Company to the view that their salvation lay in building forts and fortified enclaves in India. It was the first germ of an idea aimed at controlling land in India. Around this time, there was an altercation among the Mughal and the British troops at Hughli, lighting the spark for war.

The Mughals burnt an English factory and the English in turn burnt a Mughal ship and set the local faujdar’s house on fire. Shaiste Khan sent a large force to Hughli, prompting the British Commander Job Charnoc to retreat to a village called Sutanuti. It seemed that the hostilities had ended, but even then the East India Company went ahead and burnt many Mughal boats, warehouses and captured some small forts. At this stage, Shaiste Khan sought to make peace with Charnoc. He rebuked his behaviour, but still allowed a fort to be built at Uluberia near Calcutta. Unchanged though, the British continued to cause problems under Captain Heath, such as burning the fort at Baleshar, before he was forced to withdraw, to Fort St. George in present day Chennai.

Meanwhile, the Western coast was also edgy since laws pertaining to Surat were being brought into play. Relations between the British and the Siddis of Janjira had never been very cordial, so when the war in Bengal began, the East India Company’s Governor at Bombay, Sir John Child, indulged in war mongering aimed at the Siddis. Although they had nominal control of Bombay, he wanted to make it total by eliminating any competition.

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