The early Indian entrepreneurs made their fortune and wealth with their increasing trade with China. From the late eighteenth century, the British in India began exporting opium to China and procured tea from China back to England. Many Indians traders who were involved in this exchange became wealthy with their involvement in providing finance, obtaining supplies, and other infrastructural facilities. With their involvement in these activities, they acquired wealth and were able to establish vast business enterprises. Other than this, capital and wealth were accumulated through other trade networks like trade with Burma, the Middle East and East Africa.
