Prominent Foreign Travellers During Medivial India for RAS/RTS Prelims Exam

1.	Marco Polo	Venetian Traveller visited Pandya kingdom
2.	Ibn Batuta	Muhammad bin Tughlaq
3.	Nicolo Conti	Italian visited Vijayanagar during the reign of Deva Raya I
4.	Abdur Razaq	Visited the court of Zamorin in Calicut & travelled to Vijaynagar
		during the reign of Deva Raya II
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6.	Nuniz	Portuguese, stayed at Vijayanagar during Krishna Deva Raya
7.	Ralph Fitch	British during Akbar’s reign
8.	William Hawkins	English merchant. Received a mansab from Jehangir
9.	Thomas Roe	Ambassador of English King James I to Jehangir’s court.
		Obtained trade concessions. Wrote “Embassy”.
10.	Peter Mundy	English traveller during Shah Jahan’s reign.
11.	Tavernier	French jweller. Aurangzeb’s reign.
12.	Bernier	French Physician. Most important account of all European.
		Aurangzeb’s reign. Wrote ‘Travels in the Mughal Empire’.
13.	Nicolo Manucci	Italian. Aurangzeb’s reign.