The story goes back to Europe's golden age of exploration, when trade routes were just being established to India that would eventually lead to the waterways of European capitals. If the ship found on ...

1498-Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Calicut, India becoming the first European to reach India by sea 1609-William Shakespeare's Sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, ...

Most history textbooks tell us that Portuguese traveller Vasco da Gama landed at Kappad near what was then Calicut on May 20, 1498, heralding the advent of colonial powers on Indian shores. However, ...

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