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What was the reason for the strained relation between the Portuguese and the Zamorin?

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The Arabs and the Chinese were the prominent foreigners who had trade relations with Kerala before the coming of the Europeans. The Portuguese aim was to end the monopoly of the trade of the Arabs and the Chinese and to get the monopoly of trade in Kerala.

So they demanded Zamorin, the ruler of Calicut to expel the Arab merchants from Kozhikode. The Zamorin rejected their demand and this enraged the Portuguese. This strained the relation between the Portuguese and the Zamorin.



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