Match List I with List II.
| List – I (Foreign Travellers) | List – II (Country they came from) |
| (A) Nicolo de Conti | (I) Portugal |
| (B) Abdur Razzaq Samarqandi | (II) Russia |
| (C) Afanasii Nikitin | (III) Italy |
| (D) Domingo Paes | (IV) Iran |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)
(A) Nicolo de Conti — this matches (III) Italy. Nicolo de Conti was an Italian trader. He, Abdur Razzaq and Nikitin all visited Vijayanagara in the fifteenth century.
(B) Abdur Razzaq Samarqandi — this matches (IV) Iran. Abdur Razzaq was an ambassador sent by the ruler of Persia, the old name of Iran.
(C) Afanasii Nikitin — this matches (II) Russia. Afanasii Nikitin was a merchant from Russia.
(D) Domingo Paes — this matches (I) Portugal. Duarte Barbosa, Domingo Paes and Fernao Nuniz came from Portugal in the sixteenth century.
Note: A same/similar question was asked in CUET (UG) in the papers below.
| 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
| – | – | – | – | 21-08 S1 21-08 S2* |
* A similar question.
NCERT (2026-27): “3. Vijayanagara … Finding out about the city A large number of inscriptions of the kings of Vijayanagara and their nayakas recording donations to temples as well as describing important events have been recovered. Several travellers visited the city and wrote about it. Notable among their accounts are those of an Italian trader named Nicolo de Conti, an ambassador named Abdur Razzaq sent by the ruler of Persia, a merchant named Afanasii Nikitin from Russia, all of whom visited the city in the fifteenth century, and those of Duarte Barbosa, Domingo Paes and Fernao Nuniz from Portugal, who came in the sixteenth century.” |