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The English East India Company established their first permanent regular factory in India at:

  1. A
    Bombay
  2. B
    Surat
  3. C
    Sutanuti
  4. D
    Madras

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Following royal permission obtained from Mughal Emperor Jahangir by Captain Thomas Best, the English East India Company established its first formal permanent trading factory at Surat in western India in the year 1613.

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The English East India Company established their first permanent regular factory in India at:
A
Bombay
B
Surat
C
Sutanuti
D
Madras

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