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
Al-Biruni came first, in the eleventh century, arriving with Mahmud of Ghazni and writing the Kitab-ul-Hind. Afanasii Nikitin, the Russian merchant, travelled to the Bahmani kingdom in the fifteenth century.
Duarte Barbosa, the Portuguese writer, described the west coast in the early sixteenth century, and the Spanish Jesuit Antonio Monserrate reached Akbar’s court in 1580. The order is therefore D, C, A, B.