What is the name of the seventeenth-century French traveller who gave information regarding money in the Indian villages and the role of shroffs?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option 3 - Jean-Baptiste Tavernier
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, a seventeenth-century French traveler gave information regarding money in the Indian villages and the role of shroffs.
MONEY IN THE VILLAGE: The seventeenth-century French traveller Jean-Baptiste Tavernier found it remarkable that in “India a village must be very small indeed if it has not a moneychanger called a Shroff. (They) act as bankers to make remittances of money (and who) enhance the rupee as they please for paisa and the paisa for these (cowrie) shells”.