User blog comment:GunsnadGlory/The Mughals Stay/@comment-32656-20120705221430/@comment-4621372-20120706113508

The Brits would have been trading partners. Sure, they invaded, but because it was weak, exceptionally weak. They swept up tiny individual kingdoms. The Persians had softened it up. Admittedly there were some strongholds, but that was not as much of a challenge as what I am talking about.

The Dutch were traders, not conquerors. Besides, see above.

Not the Portugese. Under either Jahangir or Shah Jahan they lost their support, which went to the Brits after them. The British competed with them for trade with India. Besides, see above.

Not the French, because of the main point above- they could not defeat the Mughals alone, and they were hardly going to collaborate.