Arrange the following in chronological order:
(A) Mahmud Wali Balkhi's wide travels
(B) Marco Polo's visit to China
(C) Shaikh Ali Hazin's arrival in north India
(D) The visit of Abdur Razzaq Samarqandi
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → B, D, A, C
(B) Marco Polo's visit to China — First. Marco Polo visited China (and also India) from Venice in the late thirteenth century, the earliest of the four.
(D) The visit of Abdur Razzaq Samarqandi — Second. Abdur Razzaq Samarqandi visited south India in the 1440s, in the fifteenth century.
(A) Mahmud Wali Balkhi's wide travels — Third. Mahmud Wali Balkhi travelled very widely in the 1620s, in the seventeenth century.
(C) Shaikh Ali Hazin's arrival in north India — Fourth. Shaikh Ali Hazin came to north India in the 1740s, the latest of the four.
NCERT (2026-27): “2.1 An early globe-trotter … “In the centuries between 1400 and 1800 visitors to India wrote a number of travelogues in Persian. At the same time, Indian visitors to Central Asia, Iran and the Ottoman empire also sometimes wrote about their experiences. These writers followed in the footsteps of Al-Biruni and Ibn Battuta, and had sometimes read these earlier authors. Among the best known of these writers were Abdur Razzaq Samarqandi, who visited south India in the 1440s, Mahmud Wali Balkhi, who travelled very widely in the 1620s, and Shaikh Ali Hazin, who came to north India in the 1740s. …” |