AHC/WI: the Mughal Emperor bought a large number of shares in the Dutch East India company

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The Mughal Emperors were immensely rich. So, if the Dutch were weakened, indebted, or less centralized (perhaps the Netherlands is occupied by France or some other crisis occurs), and a Mughal emperor was inclined towards risky investments, could the Mughals have bought a large number of shares in the Dutch East India Company, with the Mughal Empire becoming the principal shareholder in the Company? What would happen afterward?
 
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I’m not even sure if he’d be allowed to do so even if an emperor decided to get involved with the affairs of the “Firangi”.

Furthermore, the Dutch were involved far more in the Konkan and Malabar coast than they were with the Mughal Empire. The English and the Portuguese, which the Mughals traded with far more, were both disliked.
 
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