It had two major flaws.
- India was rich as fukk.
- Indians were very adamant in treating every idiot walking upto their doors as guest.
The perfect recipe if you want to get your house robbed.
While Europe which was the world then struggled with ice age during their winters, India was fertile like a 23 year old. It had spices, gold, diamonds, crops, food, trade and people who would trust just anybody. Somehow Indians then got this notion “guest is god” and they took it to the heart no questions asked.
Travellers and traders who would pass by India and eventually reach Europe would tell people about this land where its wealth and trade everywhere and the people are just extremely welcoming. And that’s when they actually started calling it India because it was next to the Indus River. Back then it was just easier to relate a land with its river rather than calling it by its real name which was “Bharatavarsh”.
And so everyone from Christopher Columbus to Vasco da Gama were in a rush to find a safe and exclusive passage to this land. Columbus reached somewhere else thinking he reached India and started calling those people as Indians. We still do.
But it was a matter of time when someone would eventually find a way to India while carrying a large military force, via sea as it was easier to control the trade route that ways.
Portuguese came first, then the Dutch, then Your Highness followed by the Hexagon.
Portugal (1498)
Dutch (~1600)
British (1608)
French (1664)
Ofcourse they all disguised as traders and who cared if they carried their armies with them, though armies came much later.
But Indians were like…
Rest is history.
The richest country and the culture on the planet was thrown into a series of hundreds of years of rape and looting all thanks to Indians not being an ass hole.