Image: VASCO DA GAMA LANDING AT KALICUT

Description: This history of India begins well before era of British colonization, during the age of the invasion of Alexander the Great, which was the west's first contact with the east. For much of the next millennium various Moslem lords rules parts of northern India. Finally, in the eighteenth century, France and Britain contested for control of the Asian trade centered in India, and for the following two centuries, India was Britain's most important colony.
Title: VASCO DA GAMA LANDING AT KALICUT
Credit: Peeps At History
Author: T. H. Mannerhow Illustrated by Allan Stewart
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