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Afanasy Nikitin (from Tver, Russia) was the first European to reach India in 1469. He reached the Bahamani kingdom (about 140 miles south of present day Bombay) and wrote a detailed diary of his travels to and within India titled Хождение за три моря - (Journey across three seas).
Vasco De Gama was the first European to reach India by sea. He first approached the Indian coast in May of 1498. He was a Portuguese explorer who eventually died in India in 1524.

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