Document 2 Source: Duarte Barbosa,government official employed in a Portuguese trading-post on the Malabar Coast, travel narrative published in Portugal in 1516. The Muslims in Calicut are rich, and live well, and they used to control all the sea trade from that town. Indeed, if the king of Portugal had not discovered India, Malabar would already have been in the hands of the Muslims. In addition to the local Muslims, there are also foreign Muslims in Calicut such as Arabs Persians, and Gujaratis. They are great merchants, sail to all parts of the world with their goods, and have their own Muslim leader who rules over them and disciplines them as necessary, without the Hindu king of Calicut numerous and powerful in the city of Calicut that the Hindus did not dare to enter into disputes with them. meddling with them. And before the king of Portugal discovered the country, the Muslim traders were so And after the king of Portugal made himself master there, and these Muslims saw that they could not defend their position there, they began to leave Calicut so that very few of them remain today.

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Document 2 Source: Duarte Barbosa,government official employed in a Portuguese trading-post on the Malabar Coast, travel narrative published in Portugal in 1516. The Muslims in Calicut are rich, and live well, and they used to control all the sea trade from that town. Indeed, if the king of Portugal had not discovered India, Malabar would already have been in the hands of the Muslims. In addition to the local Muslims, there are also foreign Muslims in Calicut such as Arabs Persians, and Gujaratis. They are great merchants, sail to all parts of the world with their goods, and have their own Muslim leader who rules over them and disciplines them as necessary, without the Hindu king of Calicut numerous and powerful in the city of Calicut that the Hindus did not dare to enter into disputes with them. meddling with them. And before the king of Portugal discovered the country, the Muslim traders were so And after the king of Portugal made himself master there, and these Muslims saw that they could not defend their position there, they began to leave Calicut so that very few of them remain today.

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Summary: In 1516, Duarte Barbosa, a Portuguese government official, described the prosperous Muslim community in Calicut controlling sea trade. He credits the discovery of India by the king of Portugal for preventing Malabar from falling into Muslim hands. Barbosa notes diverse foreign Muslim merchants in Calicut, led by their own leader, who were dominant before Portugal's influence. After Portugal's control, Muslims left Calicut, leading to a decline in their presence.

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