Which of the following writers / chroniclers was come with Mahmud Ghazni to India?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Alberuni
Alberuni, the Persian scholar Abu Rayhan al-Biruni, came to India in the train of Mahmud of Ghazni in the early eleventh century.
He learnt Sanskrit and wrote the Kitab-ul-Hind, a careful account of Indian religion, philosophy, science and society. Ibn Battuta came much later, in the reign of Muhammad bin Tughlaq, and Abul Fazl was a courtier of Akbar.