What was blue water policy?
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The Blue Water Policy was a strategy introduced by Francisco de Almeida, the first Portuguese governor of India, in 1505. The policy aimed to make the Portuguese a maritime power in the Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea, and to establish Portuguese business in the region. The policy called for the Portuguese to focus on sea power instead of building forts on land, and to limit their activities to commercial transactions. Almeida believed that the Portuguese could only hold India if they were powerful at sea, and that building forts on land would be useless.