#EuropeanarrivalinIndia
📍 Nino da Cunha assumed office of the governor in November 1529 and almost one year later shifted the headquarters of the Portuguese government in India from Cochin to Goa.
📍 Bahadur Shah’s relations with the Portuguese became sour when Humayun withdrew from Gujarat in 1536.
📍 Bahadur Shah wanted to raise a wall of partition. Opposing this, the Portuguese started negotiations, in the course of which the ruler of Gujarat was invited to a Portuguese ship and killed in 1537.
📍 Hence, The Portuguese acquired several territories from the Sultans of Gujarat: Daman (occupied 1531, formally ceded 1539); Salsette, Bombay, and Baçaim (occupied 1534); and Diu (ceded 1535).
📍Da Cunha also attempted to increase Portuguese influence in Bengal by settling many Portuguese nationals there with Hooghly as their headquarters.
▪︎SOURCE - SPECTRUM (Rajiv ahir)
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