Question

Who was the first Mughal emperor who conflicted with British?
A) Aurangzeb
B) Jahangir
C) Shah Alam
D) Bahadur Shah

Answer 1

Hint:
-He was the sixth Mughal emperor.
-He ruled over almost the entire Indian subcontinent for a period of 49 years.
-He is known as the Mughal Empire's last effective ruler and also as the most controversial ruler in Indian history.

Complete answer:
-The first conflict of a Mughal emperor with the British can be traced back to the Child’s War.
-The Child's War was a war which lasted from 1686 to 1690 between the English East India Company and the Mughal Empire of India.
-William Hedges was sent to Shaista Khan, the Mughal governor of Bengal, in 1682 by the English East India Company to obtain a firm: an imperial order that would grant routine trading rights to England in the Mughal empire. Sir Josiah Child, the governor of the company in London, then interfered with the task of Hedges, causing the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb to break off the negotiations. The Child began a war with the Mughals after that.

Hence the correct answer is option ‘A’.

Note: The English surrendered after a year of resistance, and the company sent envoys to Aurangzeb's camp in 1690 to ask for a pardon. The envoys of the company had to prostrate themselves before the emperor, pay a huge indemnity, and in the future promise better conduct. The emperor withdrew his troops and the company re-established itself in Bombay afterwards and established a new base in Calcutta.

When he captured Mughal ships, Sir Josiah Child's war with the Mughal Empire started and ended when the English were forced to make peace with the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb in 1689. Until the year 1703, the results of this dispute continued to be noted.