History into colonization of India:

It is a known fact that the southern hemisphere countries feed the northern hemisphere countries. This can be seen by the winter pattern in the respective regions. Europe that led the industrial growth, many centuries back found that with education and civilization it was no more a feasible position to undertake daily hunting for purpose of food and required a preservative that will preserve meat during winter. Advancement in science thought them that if salt is mixed with pepper is an excellent preservative for storing meat. This resulted in the initial design of what was called ‘Meat Safes’. The only issue, where do you get sufficient quantity of pepper??? The search for ‘Black Gold’ entered high on the agenda for Spain, Portugal and England. Around this period Christopher Columbus had to flee Italy for advocating a theory that the world is round and not flat as presumed then. The Queen of Spain however granted him refuge and made a request that he set sail and find the land of pepper by sea. Samples were given to him and description of how Indians will look. Christopher Columbus set sail but lost path and reached America. The description of Indians though were not matching as he found that the people were reddish tanned and hence he named them ‘Red Indians’. In any case he gave them samples of pepper and they instead brought him samples of red chillies, which was very spicy. He however gathered huge quantities of the same and returned to Spain where the people eagerly awaited him.

He offered a sample of red chilly, which a volunteer tried to taste but started gasping instead of being pleased. Columbus was again at the receiving end and the Spaniards wanted him to be sentenced to death, but the Queen offered to free him on a condition that he leave Spain and also spread the word of Christianity as he travels on. Sooner or later the Europeans reached the western coast of India and more particularly moved to the Western Ghats in search of pepper. Having found pepper, they convinced us Indians to barter for chillies, which Indians found fascinating. In reality a one sided 2:1 or more barter for pepper paved way into India. While this was going on, Portugal started attacking the English ships at High Sea for the pepper and as a result, East India Company was formed to protect the English ships at sea and eventually colonized our Country. Subsequently, the Portugese who colonized Goa, with a sole intention to get back at the English, taught the Nadar Community of Tamil Nadu the art of growing Chillies using well irrigation facilities and trading chillies. This resulted in the west changing our food style for their gain.