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The Siege of Cochin (1504) was one of the most detailed sieges of the modern age, mainly due to its astonishing nature -- a thousand portuguese and cochinese managed to defeat tens of thousands of the Zamorin of Calicut's troops, due to a combination of luck, spying on the enemy's command structure, and the notable cleverness of portuguese commander Duarte Pacheco.
But what if at least one of these factors wasn't present, and the portuguese had lost the battle? What if the portuguese presence in southern India had been strangled in the cradle?
Could the Zamorin manage to estabilish a kingdom of Kerala in some way?
With a less direct portuguese presence in Dravidia, what are the effects on trade and the overall economy of Portugal and India?
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