UPSC Prelims · 1991 · GS Paper I · Q7
When the Portuguese arrived in India, the foreigners whom they encountered as trade rivals were the
- (A)Persians
- (B)Arabs
- (C)Dutch
- (D)English
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Answer: (B) Arabs
- Subject
- History
- Chapter
- Advent of Europeans & British Expansion
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