Match the LIST-I with LIST-II:LIST-ITravellerLIST-IINative-CountryA.A…

The correct answer is Option (2) → A - II, B - III, C - I, D - IV

(A) Al-Biruni — this matches (II) Uzbekistan. He was born in 973 in Khwarizm, in present-day Uzbekistan, an important centre of learning. He came to the subcontinent in the eleventh century and wrote the Kitab-ul-Hind.

(B) Ibn Battuta — this matches (III) Morocco. He came from Morocco, in north-western Africa, in the fourteenth century (1304-77). His book of travels is called the Rihla.

(C) Afanasii Nikitich Nikitin — this matches (I) Russia. He was a fifteenth-century traveller from Russia who spent the years 1466-72 in India.

(D) Duarte Barbosa — this matches (IV) Portugal. He was one of the best-known Portuguese writers. He visited India in 1518, died in 1521, and wrote a detailed account of trade and society in south India.