Mishra G

Advent of the Europeans in India Though we associate history with a chronological order of events, in reality, history is a complex amalgam of change and continuity with the changes taking place at different times at different places. Chronological order does not mean that events took place one at a time; events took place simultaneously at different places involving different sets of people. It is customary to divide the study of history into periods. We, thus, talk of ancient, medieval, and modern periods in history. However, it is not always easy to distinguish clearly when one period ends and another begins. The history of modern India is usually associated with the advent of the Europeans, but then we need to go back to what is generally considered the medieval period, i.e., the 15th century itself-indeed, to a time even before the Mughals came and established their empire. The Portuguese in India Till the end of the sixth century, European nations like Greece and Rome had extensi...