Abstract
The Indian subcontinent, forged by centuries of empires, cultures, and civilisations, bore witness to one of the most vicious colonial campaigns in history. Although much of the discourse regarding colonial India is relegated to the British Raj that spanned across two centuries, from the late 18th century to the mid-20th century, it is the Portuguese who made such a discourse possible in the first place through their discovery of a direct sea route to India in 1498, thereby laying the foundation of colonialism in India. And in this grand scale of Indian colonial history, Kerala occupies a significant position as the land that first bore the imprints of European colonialism with the arrival of the Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama in Calcutta in 1498.
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