Social Sciences, asked by rajmehra95346, 3 months ago

why did the Portuguese first
land in India

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Answered by Anonymous

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Vasco da Gama lands in India

The first Portuguese encounter with the subcontinent was on 20 May 1498 when Vasco da Gama reached Calicut on the Malabar Coast. ... Over the objections of Arab merchants, Gama managed to secure a letter of concession for trading rights from the Zamorin, Calicut's Brahman ruler.

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