Match List-I with List-II
| List-I | List-II | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Travelers to India | The country they belonged to | ||
| (A) | Duarte Barbosa | (I) | Turkey |
| (B) | Seydi Ali Reis | (II) | Italy |
| (C) | Marco Polo | (III) | Morocco |
| (D) | Ibn Batuta | (IV) | Portugal |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → (A)-(IV), (B)-(I), (C)-(II), (D)-(III)
Each traveller in List-I is matched with the country he came from.
(A) Duarte Barbosa — this matches (IV) Portugal. A Portuguese official, he wrote a detailed account of the trade and people of the west coast of India in the early 16th century.
(B) Seydi Ali Reis — this matches (I) Turkey. An Ottoman Turkish admiral, he was driven to the coast of Gujarat by storms in 1554 and met the Mughal emperor Humayun on his way home.
(C) Marco Polo — this matches (II) Italy. The Venetian traveller visited the Pandya kingdom on the south-east coast of India in the late 13th century, on his way back from China.
(D) Ibn Batuta — this matches (III) Morocco. Born in Tangier, Ibn Battuta reached India in 1333 and served as a qazi in Delhi under Muhammad bin Tughlaq; his travel account is the Rihla.