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India

General information
Continent	Asia
Notable inhabitants	Sumbhajee Angria
Societal
Behind the scenes
First appearance	The Turning Tide
Latest appearance	The Turning Tide

"Where did you say we're going again?"
"India. I hear they let cows just wonder through their houses there. Can you imagine? I hate cows."

―Barbara Huntington and Marcella^[src]

India was a landmass located on the Indian Subcontinent of Asia. It was not considered a part of Asia though.

HistoryEdit

DiscoveryEdit

The name India comes from the river Sindhu. Over this river, a Valley Civilization progressed as one of the cradels of human life. This civilization existed from 3300 - 1900 BC. After the civilsation mysteriously disappeared, the Vedic or Hindu civilisations (started by Aryan invaders of Central Asia) began to spread throughout the land. The subcontinent also had undergone other Invasions. One was the Invasion by the Macedonian prince Alexander the Great. After crossing the Sindhu, the Greeks named it Indus, after which it is etymologised to India.

Apart from Huns, Mongols, Turks, Mughals, Arabs, Greeks, Persians, etc. India was colonized in the Beginning of the Modern Era by the European countries of Great Britain, France, Portugal, Denmark, and Holland. The Spanish attempted to sail to India but its explorers and Conquistadores landed up on North America.

East India Trading CompanyEdit

"Our Company's profits are at stake! What are you shiftless fools doing out there in India-counting your own toes?"

―Benedict Huntington to an EITC agent^[src]

The East India Trading Company was granted a Royal Charter by Queen Elizabeth I. The Company began to set up factories, one of them being Calcutta. Mughal ruler Siraj-aud-Daula ordered the French and British to remove their fortifications. The French complied, while the British with their fort at the city of Calcutta did not. Angry at this, the Mogols threw the British out. The Company launched an immense Invasion with the country's greatest forces and struck back hard, only to end up conquering all of India soon enough. The EITC began trading with the East Indies.

The Company began monopolizing in the Caribbean, led by Lord Cutler Beckett. Cutler Beckett would have probably served as a clerk in India before he rose up to power.

PiracyEdit

"Just before we parted company, James mentioned that he had come upon a man, half dead, floating in the sea. They pulled him out, and before he died, he told them a story similar to the ones I have heard here today. He said it happened off the coast of India. It seems these villains are everywhere."

―Don Rafael to pirates assembled at Shipwreck Cove^[src]

The Vedic civilisation has shown ancient records of Piracy. After the Dark ages, piracy was recorded many times. Arabs used piracy as an excuse to expand into India, and piracy was also used several times as an excuse for war. In 14th century South India, war exploded between the two Muslim and Hindu kingdoms, so there had been a need for fresh supplies, and the easiest way to get them was to raid the trade routes coming from Persia to Africa. During the times of Mughal rule, European pirates also saw treasure in this area and began to pillage Mughal vessels and ships transporting pilgrims heading to Mecca for their annual pilgrimage. These constant raids sparked a war between Portugal and the Mughal Empire, because Portuguese pirates captured a ship belonging to the Mughal queen. In the 18th century, the famous Maratha privateer, Kanhoji Angria, ruled the seas between Mumbai and Goa. The Marathas demanded the East India Trading Company to pay a fee if sailing through their waters.

Pirate Lords like Sumbhajee Angria also began to expand their influence over Indian oceans. Madagascar also had connection with pirate raids on India, due to the fact that both are on the Indian Ocean. Jack Sparrow himself was born off the coast of India, just as his father Edward Teague was born in British India. During the early 1730s, some of the rogue pirates operated off the coast of India.^[1].