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I wonder if it has anything to do with people showing unannounced and uninvited on the sub continent historically actually had to land there, i.e. the Portugues
by dogma1138 8y ago
I wonder if it has anything to do with people showing unannounced and uninvited on the sub continent historically actually had to land there, i.e. the Portuguese and the British.
- scarejunba 8y agoMakes no sense. The subcontinent has had its fair share of land invasions that required no travel by sea.
- foobarchu 8y agoMost of them, in fact. I can think of no incursions by sea except for British, Portuguese, and French, none of which were actual 'invasions' at the time so much as merchants wanting to trade (which, of course, did lead directly to the british raj, but that was never the original intention of the EIC).
- jogjayr 8y agoThat seems like a stretch. It's not a literal translation of the equivalent phrase in any Indian language I speak. And there were nearly zero English speakers in India before Europeans came, so it's not like Indians made up the idiom as the British sailed their ships into the harbor.