What is the name of the seventeenth-century French traveler who gave information regarding money in the Indian villages?

Jean-Baptiste Tavernier

The correct answer is Option 3 - Jean-Baptiste Tavernier

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”.