Step aboard for a journey into Pedro Alvares Cabral's fateful 1500 expedition to Calicut, an odyssey that ignited a decade-long conflict between Portugal and the Zamorin of Calicut. Explore the Machiavellian tactics the Portuguese employed, pitting Indian states against each other, and discover how these moves catapulted Cochin from an underdog city-state to a maritime powerhouse on the Malabar Coast.