Ibn Batuta, an African traveller, visited India during the reign of the following ruler.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Mohammad bin Tughlaq
Ibn Battuta, the Moroccan traveller from Tangier, reached Delhi in 1334 during the reign of Muhammad bin Tughlaq, who appointed him qazi of the capital and later sent him as envoy to China.
His account, the Rihla, written in Arabic, is a valuable source for the social and economic life of fourteenth-century India, describing its cities, markets, postal system and the coconut and paan he found so novel.