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18th Apr 2022
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Travellers Visited India |
Contemporary Rulers |
Contribution. |
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Deimachos Period: (320-273 BC) Who: Greek Ambassador |
Came India in the reign of Bindusara. |
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Megasthenes Period: (302-298 B.C.) Who: Greek ethnographer & ambassador. |
Ambassador of Seleucus Nicator, who visited in the court of Chandragupta Maurya. |
Wrote an interesting book Indica. |
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Ptolemy Period: 130 A.D. Who: From Greece and Geographer. |
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Wrote “Geography of India” which gives the description of Ancient India. |
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Fa-Hien Period: (405-411 A.D.) Who: Chinese Buddhist Monk |
Came to India in the reign of Chandragupta II Vikramaditya. |
– Visited the birth place of Buddha, Lumbini. – His Travelogue “Records of Buddhist Kingdoms”. – Wrote Fo-Kyo-Ki. |
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Hiuen-Tsang Period: (630-645 A.D.) Who: Chinese Buddhist Monk |
Visited India during the reign of Harshavardhana. |
– Came through Tashkent and Swat Valley. – Book is “Si-Yu-Ki or the records of western world”. |
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I-tsing Period: ( 671- 695 A.D.) Who: Chinese traveller |
Visited India in connection with Buddhism. |
– His works are Biographies of Eminent Monks. – Gives useful information about the social, religious and cultural life of the people of this country. |
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Al-Masudi Period: (957 A.D.) Who: Arab Traveller |
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Gives an extensive account of India in his work “Muruj-ul-Zahab”. |
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Al- Beruni or Abu Rehan Mahamud Period: (1024-1030 A.D.) Who: Muslim Scholar and Polymath |
Came along with Mahmud Ghazni during one of his Indian raids. |
– First Muslim Scholar to study India also known as founder of Indology. – Wrote “ Tahqiq-i-Hind/Kitab-ul-Hind. |
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Marco Polo Period: (1292-1294 AD) Who: Venetian Traveller |
Visited South India in 1294 A.D during the reign of Pandyan ruler of Madurai, Madverman, Kulshekhara (1272-1311) |
His work “The Book of Sir Marco Polo” which gives an invaluable account of the economic history of India. |
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Ibn Batuta Period: (1333-1347 A.D.) Who: Morrish traveller |
Visited India during the reign of Muhammad-Bin-Tughlaq. |
His book “ Rehla” (the travelogue) |
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Shihabuddin al-Umari Period: (1348 A.D.) Who: Came from Damascus |
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He gives a vivid account of India in his book “ Masalik albsar fi-mamalik al-amsar” |
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Nicolo Conti Period: (1420-1421 A.D.) Who: Venetian traveller |
Came during the rule of Devraya I of Sangam Dynasty of Vijayanagar empire. |
Given a graphic account of Vijayanagaras capital. |
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Abdur Razzaq Period: (1443-1444 A.D.) Who: Persian traveller, Ambassador of Shahrukh of Timurid dynasty. |
– Came during the rule of Devraya II of Sangam dynasty of Vijaynagar Empire. – Came in India at Zamorin’s Calicut. |
Given a brief account of this countryside, in his Matla us Saddin wa Majuma ul Baharain. |
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Athanasius Nikitin Period: (1470- 1474 A.D.) Who: Russian merchant |
Visited South India in 1470. |
-He describes the condition of the Bahmani kingdom under Muhammad III (1463-82). – His narrative “ The journey beyond 3 seas” |
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Duarte Barbosa Period: (1500-1516 A.D.) Who: Portuguese traveller |
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He has given a brief description of the government and the people of Vijayanagar Empire. |
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Domingo Paes Period: (1520-1522 A.D.) Who: Portuguese traveller |
Visited the court of Krishnadeva Raya of Vijayanagar Empire. |
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Fernao Nuniz Period: (1535-1537 A.D.) Who: Portuguese merchant |
Came during the rule of Achyutdeva Raya of Tuluv dynasty of vijayanagar Empire. |
Wrote history of the empire from its earliest times of the closing years of Achyutdeva Raya’s reign. |
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John Hughen Von Linschotten Period: (1583 A.D.) Who: Dutch traveller |
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Given a valuable account of the social and economic life of South India. |
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William Hawkins Period: (1608-1611 A.D.) Who: Ambassador of James I, king of England. |
Came in India at the reign of Jahangir,the great Mughal Emperor. William finch came with him. |
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Sir Thomas Roe Period: (1615-1619 A.D.) Who: Ambassador of James I, king of England. |
Came in India at the reign of Jahangir,the great Mughal Emperor. |
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Edward Terry Period: (1616 A.D.) Who: Ambassador of Thomas Roe. |
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Describe about Indian social (Gujarat) behaviour. |
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Franciso Palsaert Period: (1620-1627 A.D.) Who: Dutch traveller stayed at Agra. |
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Gave a vivid account of the flourishing trade at Surat, Ahmadabad, Broach, Cambay, Lahore, Multan etc. |
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Peter Mundy Period: (1630-34 A.D.) Who: Italian traveller |
Came in the reign of the Mughal Emperor, Shahjahan. |
Gives valuable information about the living standard of the common people in the Mughal Empire. |
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John Albert de Mandesto Period: (1638 A.D.) Who: German traveller |
Reached Surat in 1638 A.D. |
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Jeen Baptiste Tavernier Period: (1638-1663 A.D.) Who: French traveller |
Visited India 6 times in the reign of Shahjahan and Aurangzeb. |
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Nicolao Manucci Period: (1653-1708 A.D.) Who: Italian traveller |
He got service at the court of Dara Shikoh. |
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Francois Bernier Period: (1656- 1717 A.D.) Who: French physician and Philosopher. |
Danishamand Khan, a noble of Aurangzeb was his patron. |
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Jean de Thevenot Period: (1666 A.D.) Who: French traveller |
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Given an account of cities like Ahmadabad, Cambay, Aurangabad and Golconda. |
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John Fryer Period: (1672-1681 A.D.) Who: English traveller |
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Given a vivid account of Surat and Bombay. |
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Gemelli Careri Period: (1695 A.D.) Who: Italian traveller who landed at Daman. |
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His remarks on the Mughal emperor’s military organisation and administration are important. |
