But they all came through the land route or precisely via the infamous Khyber Pass.
Many sailors from the Western world sailed to discover the land in the Far East called India - a land fabled to be richer than all the known worlds put combined.īut none succeeded except for Vasco Da Gama, a Portuguese sailor who became the first European to land in India on when he landed on the shores of Calicut in Kerala with four vessels.Ĭhristopher Columbus who had started his voyage in 1492, five years before Da Gama too wanted to discover the sea route to India, but instead reached the Americas, the world completely unheard before then.īy then India had already seen many foreign invaders in the form of Alexander -The Great, the Arabs, and the Mongols.
