Question

Assess the importance of accounts of the chinese and arab travellers in the reconstruction of the history of india.

Answer 1

Foreign accounts of travellers were used as supplement for the indigenous literature.

The history of the Indo- Greeks was built with With few sources which were uncertain and not precise about the Indo Greek history.

Data can be saved for a long period of time ranges upto hundreds of years.

Answer 2

When it comes o reconstruction of Indian history the Vedas and such accounts have been the most important parts of such mapping of the past.

Indian historians were not effective all the times, there were incidences where the Indian data failed and Arab and Chinese travelers have mapped such details.

They have written accounts telling their life in India then.