About Mayimama Marakkar
Mayimama Marakkar was a diplomat and politician.
Mayimama Marakkar was an Indian ambassador of the Zamorin ruler of Calicut. In 1504, he went on an embassy to the Mamluk ruler in order to obtain an intervention against the Portuguese who were preying on India.
He returned to India in 1508 with a Mamluk fleet of 12 ships, which, in combination with the local forces of Gujarat defeated a Portuguese fleet in the Battle of Chaul (1508).
He was killed in the 1508 naval encounter at Chaul.
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Indian diplomat
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Mayimama Marakkar was a diplomat and politician.
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