عنوان المقال عربي
النشاط التجاري لوكالة شركة الهند الشرقية الإنجليزية في بندر عباس (1623-1629)
Abstract
The English East India Company headed towards the Persian Gulf and Persia in the year 1615 AD and was able to establish a commercial agency for it in Jask in the year 1616 AD, and after it provided naval military assistance to the Persians in 1622 AD through its naval fleet, which helped liberate the island of Hormuz from Portuguese control And, in order to return the favor to the English East India Company, Shah Abbas I allowed the latter to establish a commercial agency for it in Bandar Abbas, and as soon as it settled in the in 1623 AD, difficulties began to interfere with her commercial activity, so her birth was stumbling, unlike what it had been in Jask, and the relationship between it and the shah, it began to lose its luster, as the shah did not abide by his pledges towards it, especially after he had achieved his goal of expelling the Portuguese from Hormuz and transferring commercial activity in the Arabian Gulf to Bandar Abbas, the English East India Company’s agency in Bandar Abbas did not get its prescribed share of Persian silk Which the Shah committed to before the liberation of Hormuz, but was empty handed in the first year of its presence in Bandar Abbas, and the Shah did not make the Bandar Abbas trade a monopoly on it, but allowed the Dutch East India Company to establish It had an agency in Bandar Abbas and one of the strongest competitors for the agency was the English East India Company in Bandar Abbas. This competition had a negative impact on its commercial activity Moreover, the English East India Company’s agency, throughout its presence in Bandar Abbas during this period, preferred to deal with the barter system over The opposite of the Dutch East India Company’s agency, which dealt most of the time with cash, so the Shah’s dealings with the heads of the company’s agency during that period did not proceed in the same manner, sometimes he would be with them and at other times he abandoned their support, and at the same time the head of the English The company’s management in London was based Its policy of dividing profits every year among the shareholders in the formation of the company, which created another problem for the company’s agency in Bandar Abbas, and in the midst of these difficulties, the latter managed to export a number of Persian silk bales and other Persian goods, and it exposed of English fabrics and other Indian goods. Its activity throughout that period did not meet the aspirations of the heads of the company’s agency in Bandar Abbas, nor did it meet the ambitions of the administration’s leadership in London and its management in Surat. As for the company’s agency’s share of customs revenues for merchants Bandar Abbas, which is scheduled to be half of those revenues from its share, but the Persians did not do justice to it, as it was very small if compared to the customs revenues that the Safavid state obtained every year during that period.
Keywords
Bandar Abbas, Business Activity. Iraq
Recommended Citation
Jaber, Hussein Kamel and Khashan, Nazim Bush
(2025)
"Commercial activity of the English East India Company agency in Bandar Abbas (1623-1629),"
Uruk for Humanities: Vol. 14:
Iss.
2, Article 18.
Available at:
https://muthuruk.mu.edu.iq/journal/vol14/iss2/18
