Question

The european travelers who has given a detailed description of the practise of Sati?

Answer 1

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

Explanation:

• He was a French traveler to the Mughal Court. He was a physician by profession. He gave a description of the Sati system. He noted that some women seemed to embrace death cheerfully and others were forced to die.

The other Europen travelers who traveled to Indian for different purposes include:

• Jean Baptiste Tavernier was a Seventeenth-century French gem traveler and merchant. He was well known as a French precious gemstone trader and gave information and history of ancient diamonds, most of them from India.
• Manucci was an 'Italian writer' and traveler. He wrote a 'memoir about the 'Indian subcontinent' during the Mughal emperor.
• Roberto Nobili was an 'Italian Jesuit missionary' to Southern India. He used a 'novel method of adaptation' to 'preach Christianity'.