Who was the “Shroff” as mentioned by the seventeenth-century French traveller Jean-Baptiste Tavernier?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Money-Changer
Tavernier found that even a very small Indian village had a money-changer called a Shroff, who acted as a banker, made remittances of money and exchanged rupees, paisa and cowrie shells.
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