1608 - 1st commander of East India Co (EIC) set foot on Indian soil in Surat.
1613 - EIC was permitted by Mughal Emperor Jahangir to set up a factory in Surat.
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1686 - 1st fight by EIC against Mughals, supported by British military. EIC lost. Their entire set up in India was seized & plundered.
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1707- Aurangzeb died. Infighting and downslide of Mughals began. Small independent kingdoms in defiance of Mughals came up.
British & French kept watching & strengthening themselves.
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It was one act of pardon by Aurangzeb and later, the infightings, which uprooted the Mughals forever.
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