Which of the following travellers did not visit the Vijayanagara Empire?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Francois Bernier
François Bernier, a French doctor, came to the Mughal Empire and was in India from 1656 to 1668, almost a century after the city of Vijayanagara was sacked and deserted in 1565.
Note: A same/similar question was asked in CUET (UG) in the papers below.
| 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
| 13-05 S1* | – | – | 31-05 S3 | – |
* A similar question.
NCERT (2026-27): “3. Vijayanagara … Finding out about the city A large number of inscriptions of the kings of Vijayanagara and their nayakas recording donations to temples as well as describing important events have been recovered. Several travellers visited the city and wrote about it. Notable among their accounts are those of an Italian trader named Nicolo de Conti, an ambassador named Abdur Razzaq sent by the ruler of Persia, a merchant named Afanasii Nikitin from Russia, all of whom visited the city in the fifteenth century, and those of Duarte Barbosa, Domingo Paes and Fernao Nuniz from Portugal, who came in the sixteenth century. 3. François Bernier A Doctor with a Difference … François Bernier, a Frenchman, was a doctor, political philosopher and historian. Like many others, he came to the Mughal Empire in search of opportunities.…” |