Chronologically arrange the following foreign travellers according to…

The correct answer is Option (2) → (D), (B), (A), (C), (E)

(D) Al-Biruni — 973-1048, from Uzbekistan; the earliest of the five, in the tenth-eleventh centuries.

(B) Marco Polo — 1254-1323, from Italy, in the thirteenth century.

(A) Abd Al-Razzaq — 1413-82, from Samarqand, in the fifteenth century.

(C) Duarte Barbosa — visited India in 1518, from Portugal, in the sixteenth century.

(E) Peter Mundy — 1600-67, from England, in the seventeenth century.

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