The East India Trade in the Seventeenth Century has exercised a strange fascination on the mind of many of the most erudite and conscientious historians. The present work deals with the subject from a different standpoint. It has traced the history of the East India Trade in the Seventeenth Century and estimated its influence on the foreign, no less than the economic policy of England during the period. The author has utilized essential data preserved in the British Museum Library, the Bodleian Library, the India Office Library and Record Department, and the Public Record Office to answer how far and to what extent was the English economic and foreign policy affected by the East India Trade.