Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Medieval India: Peasants, Zamindars and the State

Question:

Who among the following travellers provided a graphic account about the way silver travelled across the globe to reach India?

Options:

Marco Polo

Francois Bernier

Giovanni Careri

Antonio Monserrate

Correct Answer:

Giovanni Careri

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (3) → Giovanni Careri

The testimony of an Italian traveller, Giovanni Careri, who passed through India c. 1690, provides a graphic account about the way silver travelled across the globe to reach India. It also gives us an idea of the phenomenal amounts of cash and commodity transactions in seventeenth-century India.