Excerpt from Beginnings in India
It was in the spacious days of great Elizabeth that England first came in touch with India. On the last day of the sixteenth century, December "31, 1600. Queen Elizabeth granted a royal charter to "one Body Corporate and Politick, in Deed and in Name, by the name of The Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies" Thus was born the famous East India Company; and for 258 years it represented the British Power in the supremely wonderful land which became the choicest jewel in the British Crown.
India, therefore, was in one important respect unlike some other mission nelds In Nigeria, for instance, in East Africa and Uganda, on the Congo and the Zambesi, in Madagascar and New Zealand and the Southern Seas, the Missionary preceded the trader and the consul and the commissioner. But in India trade led the way, so far at least as British Missions arc concerned. Francis Xavier's work, indeed, was earlier than Elizabeth's reign, but not earlier than the mercantile settlements of Portugal.
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