Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Medieval India: Through the Eyes of Travellers

Question:

One of the foreign travellers to India describes the Mughal Empire as " Its king was the king of "beggars and barbarians", its cities and towns were ruined and contaminated with "ill air" and its fields, "overspread with bushes" and full of "pestilential marishes". And, all this was because of one reason: "Crown ownership of land."

Identify the traveler who gave this account.

Options:

Abdur Razzaq

François Bernier

Duarte Barbosa

Manucci

Correct Answer:

François Bernier

Explanation:

François Bernier saw most of the problems in India related to the crown ownership of land.