The East India Company and the Emperor Aurangzeb

'Trade follows the flag' is a truism of imperial expansion but in the 1680s it was the other way round, as East India Company entrepreneurs made an ambitious and abortive attempt to challenge the might of the Moghul empire.

Aurangzeb on horseback.

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