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Battle of Swally
The company achieved a major victory over the Portuguese in the Battle of Swally in 1612 -
Commercial Treaty
James I instructed Sir Thomas Roe to visit the Mughal Emperor Nuruddin Salim Jahangir (r. 1605–1627) to arrange for a commercial treaty that would give the company exclusive rights to reside and establish factories in Surat and other areas. -
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Gaining Control
The British expanded their trade in the Indian Ocean. -
We are not leaving
The company's mainstay businesses in India were by then cotton, silk, indigo dye, saltpetre, Dutch expanded their monopoly on spice trade in the region. -
Expanding Business
By 1647, the company had 23 factories, each under the command of a factor or master merchant and governor, and 90 employees in India -
Why people in India speak english
After taking control of the indian subcontinet british infulence spread across the region. Many natives began learning english to get jobs within the company and the empire.
Languages like Hindi and Bengali added english words and sublangugaes like Hinglish and Binglish were born