Gabriel Boughton was an East India Company (EIC) ship surgeon who travelled to India in the first half of the seventeenth century and became highly regarded by Mughal royalty.
He became the centre of a legend surrounding the acquisition by the EIC of a licence to trade freely in India and establish the first EIC factories on the banks of the Hooghly River in Bengal. According to the legend, incorrectly retold for over a century, Boughton treated and cured emperor Shah Jahan's daughter Jahanara Begum of burns after her clothing caught fire, and in return the emperor granted the EIC a licence to trade freely and to open factories. Boughton was further credited with receiving concessions from the emperor's son Shah Shuja for treating one of the prince's concubines.
After being retold in a number of reputable sources mainly throughout the eighteenth century, EIC expansion in the Indian state of Bengal in the 1840s became attributed to Boughton's story. However, when historians examined its details, some details were found to be impossible due to inconsistencies in dates and the absence of evidence that the emperor's licence ever existed.
GabrielBoughton was an East India Company (EIC) ship surgeon who travelled to India in the first half of the seventeenth century and became highly regarded...
history of the office of the Governor of Bengal dates back to 1644, when GabrielBoughton procured privileges for the East India Company which permitted them...
of fiction may have been introduced into accounts relating to this. GabrielBoughton is said to have saved Shah Jahan's daughter princess Jahanara from...
the daughter of the Emperor was severely burnt and a doctor named GabrielBoughton, formerly the surgeon of the East Indiaman Hopewell, was sent from...
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Alumni Database. University of Cambridge. "RIDER, Thomas (1765-1847), of Boughton Monchelsea Place, nr. Maidstone, Kent". History of Parliament. Retrieved...
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Archived from the original on February 5, 2021. Retrieved February 1, 2021. Boughton, Melissa (March 23, 2017). "NC Policy Watch". Pulse.ncpolicywatch.org....
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