History of India: ancient and medieval / Marathas to Panipat and the coming of the Europeans
Coming of the Europeans (1498 to 1700)
Practise 5 PYQsConcepts to cover
- 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)
Where to study
Tamil Nadu State Board Class XI History Volume II (lessons 12 to 19), full text
- Lesson 16 The Coming of the Europeans, pp. 87-111 (printed 83-107)
- Lesson 16 The Coming of the Europeans, 16.5 Arrival of Europeans and the Aftermath: Portuguese in India (Vasco da Gama, Almeida, Albuquerque), pp. 93-94 (printed 89-90)
- Lesson 16 The Coming of the Europeans, Portuguese in India (Diu, Daman, Bassein, Hooghly), pp. 94-95 (printed 90-91)
- Lesson 12 Bahmani and Vijayanagar Kingdoms, 12.2 Vijayanagar Empire (Krishnadeva Raya and the Portuguese), pp. 12-13 (printed 8-9)
- Lesson 16 The Coming of the Europeans, Portuguese in India (St. Francis Xavier), p. 95 (printed 91)
- Lesson 16 The Coming of the Europeans, Portuguese in India (crops, printing press and other introductions), p. 95 (printed 91)
- Lesson 16 The Coming of the Europeans, The Dutch; Dutch in Tamil Nadu; The English (factories at Surat, Madras, Bombay, Calcutta), pp. 96-97 (printed 92-93)
- Lesson 14 The Mughal Empire, 14.6 Jahangir: Dutch; English (trading posts), p. 45 (printed 41)
- Lesson 16 The Coming of the Europeans, The French; The Danes; The Danes in Tamil Nadu, pp. 97-98 (printed 93-94)
History of Medieval India · Satish Chandra
- ch. 9 and 16
- ch. 9
- ch. 16
Our Pasts II, Class VII, ch. 4 The Mughals (16th to 17th Century)
- ch. 4 The Mughals (16th to 17th Century), pp. 1-10 (printed 39-48)
UNESCO World Heritage Convention: India, properties inscribed on the World Heritage List (with inscription years) and Tentative List
- Cultural properties: Churches and Convents of Goa (1986)
Themes in Indian History Part II, Class XII, Theme 8 Peasants, Zamindars and the State: Agrarian Society and the Mughal Empire
- Theme 8 Peasants, Zamindars and the State, 1. Peasants and Agricultural Production: The spread of tobacco, pp. 5-6 (printed 200-201)