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What type of Travellers visited in India in 17th century?

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Fahien

401-410

Chinese

 

The first known traveler to India during the reign of Vikramaditya [Chandra Gupta II]

Hiouen Tsang

629-645

Chinese

Si-yu-ki

 

Among the most well known traveler to India, who visited in the reign of King Harshvardhan and the first foreigner to give the written account of Kumbh Mela in his time.

Sulayman Tajir [d 916]

851

Arab

Akhbar Al-Sin Wa'l-Hind

 

Was a merchant by profession and fortunately wrote the observations and experiences in his book. Went on to become the first writer to give indepth information of India.

Al- Masudi

[Death 895 - 956]

 

Arab

Muruju`z-zahab [The Meadows of Gold]

Was a genuine traveler, wrote two monumental works with several volumes in each of them. Unfortunately only 2 volumes of his work are left as of today

Al-Beruni [973 – 1050]

1001-1025

years of Ghazni’s 17 attacks

Khwarzam

[Now in Kazakhstan]

 

Gave the world a monumental work. he  visited India along with the Afghan king Mahmud Ghaznavi, who plundered India seventeen times, 

Abu Abdallah Mohammed Edrisi[1100 - 1166]

 

Moroccan but stayed at Palermo, Spain

Kitab Nuzhat al-Mushtaq / Kitab Rujar [The Book of Roger] translated only in 1619

Sharif wrote his book on the orders of his master, the Norman King of Sicily, Roger II. It was because of this reason that Sharif’s book is also called Kitab Rujar which means “The Book of Roger”. The primary source of both the writers was Al-Beruni’s work. They both also relied on the tales, experiences and accounts related by the merchants, traders and sailors who visited India and passed from their country.

 

Shihabuddin-al-Umari

[Death 1348]

 

Syrian

Masalik al-absar fi mamalik al-amsar – 22 volumes

Al-Qalaqashandi

[Death 1418]

 

Egyptian

Subhul-A’sha

He relied on Shihabuddin’s work and the tales and accounts given by the merchants and traders who visited India.

Ibn-Batuta [1304 –1368]

12 Sept 1333 to 1342

Moroccan

Rehla [Travelogue]

This Moorish traveler stayed in India for nearly nine years and is probably one of the few early travelers who traveled the length and breadth of India and gave a vivid account of the places he visited. His book is written in 1357, four years after completing his travels in 1353, when he reached his native homeland. Interestingly, he left Delhi as the ambassador of the Sultan Mohammed – Bin – Tughluq to China. He was the most traveled person of his time, traveling an estimated 75,000 miles.


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