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Who among the following controlled maximum trade in the western coastal region during 17th century?
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- Portuguese
- Dutch
- The house of Jagat Seth
- Mulla Abdul Gaffar
Correct Option: A
The English, French and Dutch East Indies Companies (EIC’s) became active in Far East trading in a meaningful way about a hundred and fifty years after the Portuguese. They too set up their posts throughout the Indian Ocean. By the middle of the 17th century, there were several thousand Portuguese and Indo Portuguese in India and a relatively small population of other Indo Europeans.