History of India: ancient and medieval / Marathas to Panipat and the coming of the Europeans
Coming of the Europeans (1498 to 1700)
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- Vasco da Gama at Calicut (1498, Zamorin, Deva Raya II era is wrong), Almeida's blue-water policy, Albuquerque captures Goa from Bijapur (1510), cartaz
- Portuguese posts: Diu (1535 from Bahadur Shah), Daman, Bassein, Bhatkal fort by Krishnadeva Raya's permission, Hooghly
- Francis Xavier: Jesuit co-founder, died at Sancian (1552), body at Bom Jesus Goa, annual feast on 3 December
- Portuguese introductions: tobacco, chillies, papaya, pineapple, guava, cashew, potato; printing press (1556)
- Dutch (1602; Pulicat, Masulipatnam, Chinsurah) and English (1600; Surat 1613, Broach, Agra, Madras 1639 from the Vijayanagara nayak, Bombay 1668, Calcutta 1690)
- French (1664; Surat 1668, Pondicherry 1674, Chandernagore) and Danes (Tranquebar 1620, Serampore)
- Portuguese decline: imperial diversion, religious policy, European rivals and Maratha expansion