Put the following travelers to India who left accounts in a chronological order from the earliest to last.
A. Duarte Barbosa from Portugal
B. Antonio Monserrate from Spain
C. Afanasii Nikitich Nikitin from Russia
D. Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Abu Raihan al-Biruni from Uzbekistan
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → D, C, A, B
D. Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Abu Raihan al-Biruni from Uzbekistan — eleventh century. Born in 973 in Khwarizm (in present-day Uzbekistan), he came to India with Mahmud of Ghazni and wrote the Kitab-ul-Hind in Arabic.
C. Afanasii Nikitich Nikitin from Russia — fifteenth century. The Russian merchant travelled in the Bahmani kingdom of the Deccan between about 1466 and 1472.
A. Duarte Barbosa from Portugal — early sixteenth century. He worked in the Portuguese posts on the west coast and completed a detailed account of trade and society in south India in about 1516.
B. Antonio Monserrate from Spain — late sixteenth century. This Jesuit priest came to the court of Akbar in 1580 with the first Jesuit mission and wrote about Akbar and his court.