Identify the name of the foreign traveller who commented on the Mughal Empire- 'its king was the king of " beggars and barbarians"; its cities and towns were ruined and contaminated with "ill air".

Francois Bernier

The correct answer is Option (2) → Francois Bernier

 Bernier saw the Mughal Empire– 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.