east india company seal

[Peter D Banos]

On Fri, 9 Feb 1996, vidya wrote:

> Is anyone on the list aware of the language of the seal of the British
> East India Company? I have read that the seal was in Persian, which seems
> surprising to me. Did the company use a Persian seal in its early life
> in India? 

Vidya,
I don't know about the seal, but it makes good sense for it to have 
been in Persian. Persian was the official language of the Mughal Empire, 
so the Company used it also, until sometime in the 19th Century if I'm 
not mistaken.
							-Peter D. Banos
							pdb1 at columbia.edu