\nThis Company was initially created in 1600 to function a trading body for English merchants, specifically to participate within the East Indian spice trade. It later added such items as cotton, silk, indigo, salt peter, tea, and opium to its wares and also participated within the slave traffic.
\n\n"},"encodingFormat":"text/html","position":1,"text":"Aurangzeb"},"comment":{"@type":"Comment","text":"In 1608 East India Company came to India as a trading company, and got the order to trade duty free in year 1691."},"eduQuestionType":"Multiple choice","encodingFormat":"text/markdown","learningResourceType":"Practice problem","suggestedAnswer":[{"@type":"Answer","comment":{"@type":"Comment","text":"It is a wrong option."},"encodingFormat":"text/html","position":0,"text":"Shah Jahan"},{"@type":"Answer","comment":{"@type":"Comment","text":"It is a wrong option."},"encodingFormat":"text/html","position":2,"text":"Bahadur Shah Zafar"},{"@type":"Answer","comment":{"@type":"Comment","text":"It is a wrong option."},"encodingFormat":"text/html","position":3,"text":"Shah Alam"}],"text":"Which Mughal emperor issued a 'Farman' granting the East India Company the right to trade duty free?"},"name":"Quiz on Medieval Indian History","typicalAgeRange":"10-17","url":"https://www.embibe.com/questions/Which-Mughal-emperor-issued-a-%27Farman%27-granting-the-East-India-Company-the-right-to-trade-duty-free%3F/EM3718349"}