1498 – When Vasco da Gama Reached India | The New Story of India via the Sea Route.

India was never "lost." Thriving maritime routes connected India to Arabia, Persia, East Africa, and Southeast Asia for millennia. Da Gama did not navigate the Indian Ocean alone; he hired an experienced local pilot (historically attributed to a Gujarati mariner or an East African/Arab navigator) from Malindi to safely reach Calicut using monsoon winds. #VascodaGama #IndianHistory #MaritimeHistory #AgeOfDiscovery #Calicut #Kozhikode #HistoryDocumentary #PortugueseEmpire #SpiceRoute #WorldHistory #HistoryOfIndia #SeaVoyage #ItihaasUncovered