A Talk on 'How India discovered Vasco Da Gama' by Historian Dr Sanjay Subrahmanyam

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Sep 4, 2024, 8:29:08 PM9/4/24

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A very interesting point of view. A different view from the Eurocentric one.

Even in Portugal there is a joke:

Vasco da Gama was asked what there was in India and he replied: - Spices, Christians, silks, etc.

What can we export from Portugal to there?

Vasco replied: - Gold, silver, etc.

And Vasco heard this answer: - So they were the ones who discovered us.

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De Gama did not discover the sea route to India.

He reached East Africa. In Malindi, the local king lent him a Gujarati pilot who knew the route to India.

A traditional story describes the pilot as the famous Arab navigator Ahmad ibn Majid, but contemporary accounts place Majid elsewhere at the time.