- Beginning in the early 1600s, Mughal emperors granted concessions(preferential treatment) to allow the British to trade in India.- Trading posts were set up along the coast in places such as Madrasand Bombay.- The British East India Company established forts to protect its commercialinterests and controlled trade in India throughout the 1600s and early 1700s.- After the Sepoy Rebellion in 1857, the British government took control of trade and replaced the Mughals as the ruling authority in India. India would become "the jewel" in the British crown.

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