Foreign Travellers in Medieval India
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Foreign Travellers before 1500
Name | Country | Time | Ruler / Dynasty | Book / Remarks |
Al-Masudi | Arab | 957 |
| Muruj-ul-Zehab |
Al-beruni | Uzbekistan | 1024-30 | Sultan Mahmud | Tahqiq-i-Hind |
Marco Polo | Italy | 1288-92 | Pandya Kakatiya | Book of Sir Marco Polo |
Ibn-e-Batuta | Morocco | 1333-42 | Mohammad Bin Tughlaq | Rehla |
Shihabuddin al-Umari | Damascus | 1348 |
| Masalik albsar fi-mamalik al-amsar |
Nicolo Conti | Italy | 1420-22 | Dev Ray I |
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Tsang Hi (Mahuan) | China | 1421-31 | Jalaluddin of Bengal |
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Abdur Razzak | Iran | 1442-43 | Dev Ray II |
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Russia | 1470-74 | Mohammad III, Bahmani |
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Portugal | 1498 | Zamorin |
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Foreign Travellers 1500-1600
Name | Country | Time | Ruler / Dynasty | Book / Remarks |
Ludovico de Varthema | Italy |
| Gujrat, Vijayanagar |
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Duarte Barbosa | Portugal | 1500-16 |
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Domingo’s Paes | Portugal | 1520-22 | Krishna Dev Ray |
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Nuniz | Portugal | 1535-37 | Achyut Dev Ray |
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Anthony Monserrate | Portugal | 1578-82 |
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Ralph Fitch | England | 1585-91 | Akbar |
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John Mildenhall | England | 1603 | Akbar | 1st recorded burial of an Englishman in India |
Ceaser Fredriseh |
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| Vijay Nagar |
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John Linscoten | Dutch |
| Vijay Nagar |
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Lama Taranath | Tibet |
| Eastern India |
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Foreign Travellers 1600-20
Name | Country | Time | Ruler / Dynasty | Book / Remarks |
William Hawkins | England | 1608-13 | Jahangir | King James I |
William Fisch | England | 1608-12 | Jahangir |
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John Jurdan | Portugal | 1608-17 | Jahangir |
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Nicholos Doughton | England | 1608-15 | Jahangir |
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Nicholos Withurgton | England | 1612-16 | Jahangir |
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Thomas Coryat | England | 1612-17 | Jahangir |
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Thomas Roe | England | 1615-19 | Jahangir | King James I |
Pal Canning | England | 1615-25 | Jahangir |
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Edward Terry | England | 1616-19 | Jahangir |
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Francisco Paelsert | Dutch | 1620-27 | Jahangir |
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Foreign Travellers after 1620
Name | Country | Time | Ruler / Dynasty | Book / Remarks |
Pietra Della Velle | Italy | 1622-60 | Jahangir |
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John Loyatt | Dutch | 1626-33 | Shahjahan |
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John Fryer | England | 1627 | Shahjahan |
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Peter Mundy | Italy | 1630-34 | Shahjahan |
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John Albert de Mandesto | Germany | 1638 | visited Surat |
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Baptiste Tavernier | France | 1641-87 | Shahjahan Aurangzeb |
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Nicolao Manucci | Italy | 1656-87 | Dara Shikoh |
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François Bernier | France | 1658-68 | Aurangzeb | Physician of Dara Sikho |
Jean de Thevnot | France | 1666-68 | Aurangzeb |
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John Fryer | English | 1672-81 | Surat and Bombay |
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Gammilly Careri | Italy | 1695-97 | Bijapur |
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foreign travelers william hawkins thomas roe vasco da gama in india nicolo conti visited vijayanagar