Portuguese Arrival in India
The first Portuguese person to arrive in India was Vasco Da Gama who arrived in 1498. In 1508 Francis Almeida sailed into Bombay. The city's natural harbour came to be called Bom Bahia (the Good Bay) by the Portuguese. Bahadur Shah of Gujarat was forced to cede the main islands to the Portuguese in 1534, before he was murdered by the proselytizing invaders. The Portuguese built a fort in Bassein which they called Baicaim . They built fortifications and a few chapels for the new converts and started schools. St. Andrew's church in Bandra dates from this period.
However, this is just sub-text in the lives of the people who came to be the Bombay Valladareses.
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