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Born	c.1450 • Lisbon • Portugal
Died	March 1, 1510 • Table Bay • South Africa
Title / Office	viceroy (1505-1509), India

Vasco da Gama

Portuguese navigator

Duarte Pacheco Pereira

Portuguese explorer

João de Castro

Portuguese naval officer

Dalhousie, detail of an oil painting by Sir John Watson-Gordon, 1847; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

James Andrew Broun Ramsay, marquess and 10th earl of Dalhousie

governor-general of India

Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier

British field marshal

Dupleix, engraving by Marie Champion de Cernel after a portrait by Sergent

Joseph-François Dupleix

French colonial official

Sir Samuel Hoare, 2nd Baronet

British statesman

Earl of Ellenborough, detail of an oil painting by F.R. Say, c. 1845; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Edward Law, earl of Ellenborough

British governor of India

Guilluame-Thomas, abbé de Raynal, detail of an engraving by Nicolas Delaunay, 1780, after a drawing by Charles-Nicolas Cochin.

Guillaume-Thomas Raynal, abbé de Raynal

French author

Sir Philip Francis

British politician

Sir Olaf Caroe

British administrator

Earl Amherst, detail of an oil painting after A. Devis; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

William Pitt Amherst, lst Earl Amherst

British diplomat

James Thomason

British colonial governor

Mahatma Gandhi

Indian leader

Alexander the Great

king of Macedonia

Jawaharlal Nehru

prime minister of India

Amit Shah

Indian politician

Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

English politician and author

Lord Curzon

British foreign secretary

Mohammed Ali Jinnah

Pakistani governor-general

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