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what are the limitations of the foreign travellers account of the early medieval period of India​

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Answered by sgokul8bkvafs
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Explanation:

Women and men have travelled in search of work, to escape

from natural disasters, as traders, merchants, soldiers,

priests, pilgrims, or driven by a sense of adventure.

Those who visit or come to stay in a new land

invariably encounter a world that is different:

in terms of the landscape or physical

environment as well as customs, languages,

beliefs and practices of people. Many of them

try to adapt to these differences; others,

somewhat exceptional, note them carefully in

accounts, generally recording what they find

unusual or remarkable. Unfortunately, we have

practically no accounts of travel left by women, though

we know that they travelled.

The accounts that survive are often varied in terms of

their subject matter. Some deal with affairs of the court,

while others are mainly focused on religious issues, or

architectural features and monuments. For example, one

of the most important descriptions of the city of

Vijayanagara (Chapter 7) in the fifteenth century comes

from Abdur Razzaq Samarqandi, a diplomat who came

visiting from Herat.

In a few cases, travellers did not go to distant lands. For

example, in the Mughal Empire (Chapters 8 and 9),

administrators sometimes travelled within the

empire and recorded their observations. Some

of them were interested in looking at popular

customs and the folklore and traditions of

their own land.

In this chapter we shall see how our

knowledge of the past can be enriched

through a consideration of descriptions of

social life provided by travellers who visited

the subcontinent, focusing on the accounts of three

men: Al-Biruni who came from Uzbekistan (eleventh

century), Ibn Battuta who came from Morocco, in

northwestern Africa (fourteenth century) and the

Frenchman François Bernier (seventeenth century).

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