Question

Write a short note on the Royal Charter granted by Queen Elizabeth I to the East India Company.

Answer 1

Solution :-

The advent of the British in India begins with Queen Elizabeth's Charter of the year Sixteen Hundred to some merchants of London who formed the East India Company to trade with the East Indies. As a consequence of this Charter, the British East India Company set up trading establishments on the East and West coasts of India, called 'factories'.

The Charter of year 1600 was mainly designed for trade in order to meet competition with the Portuguese and the Dutch. Charter of 1600 laid the foundations for the British government in India, although at that time no one in England dreamed for the establishment of British rule in India.

Answer 2

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Queen Elizabeth I of England grants a formal charter to the London merchants trading to the East Indies, hoping to break the Dutch monopoly of the spice trade in what is now Indonesia. In 1773, the British government passed the Regulating Act to rein in the company. ...