Chronologically arrange the following foreign travellers according to their year of visit to India.
(A) Abd Al-Razzaq
(B) Marco Polo
(C) Duarte Barbosa
(D) Al-Biruni
(E) Peter Mundy

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1) (A), (C), (B), (D), (E)
(2) (D), (B), (A), (C), (E)
(3) (E), (B), (D), (C), (A)
(4) (D), (B), (A), (E), (C)

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The correct answer is Option 2 - 2 [(D), (B), (A), (C), (E)]

Correct chronological order of foreign travellers according to their year of visit to India:'

(D) Al-Biruni
(B) Marco Polo
(A) Abd Al-Razzaq
(C) Duarte Barbosa
(E) Peter Mundy

Timeline of Some Travellers who Left Accounts after visiting India:

Tenth-eleventh centuries
973-1048: Muhammad ibn Ahmad Abu Raihan al-Biruni (from Uzbekistan)

Thirteenth century
1254-1323: Marco Polo (from Italy)

Fourteenth century
1304-77: Ibn Battuta (from Morocco)

Fifteenth-century
1413-82: Abd al-Razzaq Kamal al-Din ibn Ishaq al-Samarqandi (from Samarqand)
1466-72 (years spent in India): Afanasii Nikitich Nikitin (fifteenth century, from Russia)

Sixteenth century
1518 (visit to India): Duarte Barbosa, d.1521 (from Portugal)
1562 (year of death): Seydi Ali Reis (from Turkey)
1536-1600: Antonio Monserrate (from Spain)

Seventeenth century
1626-31 (years spent in India): Mahmud Wali Balkhi (from Balkh)
1600-67: Peter Mundy (from England)
1605-89: Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (from France)
1620-88: François Bernier (from France)