In the early 17th century, the Dutch and English East India Companies turned their eyes towards India, as part of their grand schemes to develop extensive trade networks across the Indian and China Seas. They were faced with two significant challenges: 1) gaining the favor of the Mughals who now controlled most of North India and, 2) pushing out the Portuguese who were well entrenched along the west coast.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original content at https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2048/the-english-and-dutch-east-india-companies-invasio/.