Kanha helped vasco da gama biography

Kanji Malam - A Merchant & Vasco Da Gama

Few people know that an Indian Merchant cum naval pilot, named Kanji Malam, was hired by Vasco da Gama to captain his ships and take him to India.

► Since long we have been taught that Vasco-da-gama discovered sea route to India, but facts and research says ancient Indian pioneered in sea navigation as well. When Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama discovered Europe-to-India sea route, he had a Gujarati by his side to show him the way.

► Vasco da Gama, At the start of this period, Vasco da Gama, lacking knowledge of celestial navigation, could not navigate the Indian Ocean, and needed an Indian pilot to guide him across the sea from Melindi in Africa, to Calicut in India.

Some of Europe's acclaimed “discoveries” in navigation were in fact appropriations of a well-established thriving trade system in the Indian Ocean. Contrary to European portrayals that Indians knew only coastal navigation, deep-sea shipping