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The conquest of the Malabar Coast has been depicted as a new form of European activity, of a distinctly different nature to the forms of contact present from the 16th until the 18th century. Due to the lack of space of Dialogue and to the limited opportunities for Encounter, the defensive processes of the Malabar societies might have led to a conservative approach, rendering difficult the possibility...