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Which Portuguese writer left a detailed account of trade and society in south India?Read the answer and worked solution →Which French jeweller travelled to India at least six times?Read the answer and worked solution →Francois Bernier was in India from 1656 to 1668 as physician to which Mughal prince?Read the answer and worked solution →To which king did Bernier dedicate his major writing?Read the answer and worked solution →Al-Biruni named three barriers to understanding India. Which was the first?Read the answer and worked solution →Al-Biruni compared the varnas to the four social categories of which ancient land?Read the answer and worked solution →Ibn Battuta said Delhi's rampart had how many gates, the Budaun darwaza being the greatest?Read the answer and worked solution →Ibn Battuta described a market of singers in Daulatabad called:Read the answer and worked solution →In Ibn Battuta's account, the horse-post was called uluq and the foot-post was called:Read the answer and worked solution →Bernier held that the fundamental difference between Mughal India and Europe was the lack of what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which French philosopher used Bernier's account to develop the idea of oriental despotism?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the travellersRead the answer and worked solution →Pop Ibn Battuta's stopsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the traveller yearsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the booksRead the answer and worked solution →Which travellerRead the answer and worked solution →Traveller to centuryRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Travellers bingoRead the answer and worked solution →In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries roughly what share of India's population lived in villages?Read the answer and worked solution →Who authored the Ain-i Akbari, the chief source on Mughal agrarian arrangements?Read the answer and worked solution →Indo-Persian sources most often called the peasant by which term?Read the answer and worked solution →Resident cultivators were khud-kashta. Non-resident cultivators from another village were called:Read the answer and worked solution →In Bengal, how many acres would make a peasant a rich asami?Read the answer and worked solution →Areas receiving how much annual rainfall were generally rice-producing zones?Read the answer and worked solution →Akbar and his nobles first came across tobacco in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →The two seasonal crop cycles of Mughal agriculture were kharif and:Read the answer and worked solution →How many varieties of rice did Bengal produce, according to the Ain?Read the answer and worked solution →Cotton and sugarcane were the perfect crops. What Persian term did sources use for such cash crops?Read the answer and worked solution →Maize reached India in the seventeenth century via which route?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Which Portuguese writer left a detailed account of trade and society in south India?

  1. J.B. Tavernier
  2. Duarte Barbosa
  3. Roberto Nobili
  4. Niccolao Manucci
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Correct answer: B. Duarte Barbosa

1. Portuguese accounts began after 1500. 2. Duarte Barbosa is the best known. 3. Nobili was a Jesuit who translated Indian texts. _Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part II, Theme 5, Through the Eyes of Travellers: Perceptions of Society._

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Which French jeweller travelled to India at least six times?

  1. Montesquieu the thinker
  2. Francisco Pelsaert
  3. Jean-Baptiste Tavernier
  4. Francois Bernier the doctor
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Correct answer: C. Jean-Baptiste Tavernier

1. He compared India with Iran and the Ottoman empire. 2. Tavernier made at least six trips. 3. He noted money-changers called shroffs. _Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part II, Theme 5, Through the Eyes of Travellers: Perceptions of Society._

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Francois Bernier was in India from 1656 to 1668 as physician to which Mughal prince?

  1. Aurangzeb
  2. Murad Bakhsh
  3. Shah Shuja
  4. Dara Shukoh
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Correct answer: D. Dara Shukoh

1. Bernier was a doctor and philosopher. 2. He served Dara Shukoh, Shah Jahan's eldest son. 3. Later he worked with Danishmand Khan. _Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part II, Theme 5, Through the Eyes of Travellers: Perceptions of Society._

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