Question

Choose the correct option:
The European traveller who has given a detailed description of the practice of Sati.
A. Jean Baptiste Tavernier
B. Manucci
C. Francois Bernier
D. Roberto Nobili

Answer 1

Option C is the correct answer.

Answer 2

The European traveller who has given a detailed description of the practice of Sati was Francois Bernier.

Answer: Option (C)

Explanation:

Bernier, Tavernier, Manucci and Nobili were all European travellers of various professions who visited India for different purposes. Francois Bernier was a French doctor. He was associated with the Mughal Court as he was the personal physician of Dara Shiko, and after his death to Emperor Aurangazeb. When he stayed long days in India he observed the Indian way of living, the rites and rituals practiced and wrote the famous book, ‘ Travels in the Mughal Empire’, where he gave a detailed description of the practice of Sati by Hindu widows.

Jean Baptiste Tavernier was a "17th-century French gem merchant" who wrote mostly on Indian diamonds. Manucci was an Italian traveller who wrote a memoir on the life and activities in the Mughal empire.

Roberto Nobili was an Italian Jesuit missionary who preached an Indianised Christianity in South India.