There were not one but several European countries competing
for Asian trade during the “Age of Exploration”. The Europeans countries were
Spain, Portugal, France England and Netherland. It is a fact that Portuguese
reached India, Korea and China before any other European country, but it was
the British that ruled India for the longest period of time. Other European
countries also reached India later on and did some trade with this country, but
nobody could compete with the amount of trade profit the British got from
India. The British colonized India for a very long time and so was the most profited
nation.