04-08-2006, 04:59 AM
I was reading the history of Vijayanagara and noticed that the colonial interlude started during a period of weakness of the Vijayanagara empire. Typically we are told that Vasco Da Gama made landfall and the Zamorin agreed to trade with him. The Vijayanagara Empire were the overlords of the region. However at that time the Vijayanagara king was a weakling and thus the colonial period started. Its another matter that the later Vijayanagara Kings traded Horses and Cannon with the Portugese.

