British established kingdom In India (East India Company)

 The ceremony is being held on a square platform surrounded by water.  A giant golden foil clad balance is installed in the center of the platform.  There are many silk bags in one pan, in the other, the fourth Mughal emperor Nuruddin Mohammad Jahangir himself rode carefully.

 Emperor Jahangir weighed about two and a half pounds, including heavy robes, crown and gold and jewelery.  Districts are sitting in one pan, silky bags kept in the other are kept alternating.  First the Mughal emperor was weighed with silver coins, then immediately distributed among the poor.  After this came the turn of gold, then jewelery, later silk, and finally, the weight of Emperor Salamat was compared with other precious things.

 This is the scene which was seen almost four hundred years ago by the British Ambassador Sir Thomas Roe in the court of Mughal emperor Nuruddin Mohammad Jahangir and noted in the diary.  But this astonishing display of wealth made Sir Thomas doubt whether the closed bags are really filled with diamonds, jewels or gold, are there any stones in them?

Actually, Sir Thomas came to India on a special mission.  Their effort was to somehow sign an agreement under which a small British company would get the right to trade in India.

 But as Sir Thomas's diary shows, this task did not prove to be so easy and hardworking English ambassadors had to make hard papad in this regard.  The reason for this was that the Mughal emperor considered Iran's white king and the Osmani Khalifa as his rival all over the world.

 In his view, England was a small, unpredictable island, and it was against his dignity to compromise with some minor king on an equal footing.

 Although Sir Thomas did not lose courage, and he did not get to Jahangir after three years of hard work, diplomatic stalking and gifts, but was able to get Wali Ahad Shah Jahan to sign an agreement in August 1618 exactly four hundred years ago.  Under which, this company got permission to open business in Surat.

 The name of this company was East India Company and this incident proved to be a milestone in its history.  This was the first time that the Mughal government directly encouraged a company of its own by entering into an effective trade agreement with a European country.

The British East India Company was established on 31 December 1600 AD.  It was also known as the John Company occasionally.  The Queen of Britain gave it up to 21 years to do business with India.  Later, the company acquired military and administrative suzerainty over almost all the regions of India. [1] It was merged in 1858. After that, the British Raj ruled India.