My last post on the 15th century Portuguese merchant-spy Pêro da Covilhã prompted quite a bit of debate among some readers around how the...

In the history of the Portuguese Age of Discoveries, the focus has been on the maritime exploits of the day, with Bartolomeu Dias sailing...

Kerala, a state on the southwest coast of India, is perhaps not particularly well-known in the rest of the world. I first heard about it...

The Codex Casanatense, or Códice Casanatense in Portuguese, is a set of 16th century Portuguese illustrations. Likely the work of an...

Vasco da Gama led the first Portuguese expedition to India, setting sail from Lisbon on July 8, 1497 and arriving in Calicut only on May...

Indian cuisine should perhaps be more accurately referred to in the plural: there are so many regional differences, from seafood-heavy...

In their quest for spices, Europeans raced to be the first to reach India. The Portuguese won, but this was merely the start of their...