Which of the following is correctly paired?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Ibn Battuta - Rihla
Option (1) Ibn Battuta - Rihla — Correct. Ibn Battuta’s book of travels, called the Rihla, was written in Arabic and gives rich details of social and cultural life in the subcontinent in the fourteenth century.
Option (2) Al-Biruni - Travels in the Mughal Empire — Incorrect. Al-Biruni (eleventh century) wrote the Kitab-ul-Hind. Travels in the Mughal Empire is the work of the seventeenth-century Frenchman François Bernier.
Option (3) Francois Bernier - Kitab-ul-Hind — Incorrect. Bernier’s account is Travels in the Mughal Empire; the Kitab-ul-Hind, written in Arabic, is Al-Biruni’s.
Option (4) Abdur Razzaq - The Mughal India — Incorrect. Abdur Razzaq Samarqandi, a diplomat who came visiting from Herat, left one of the most important descriptions of the city of Vijayanagara in the fifteenth century; his account is not a work on Mughal India.
NCERT (2026-27): “1.2 The Kitab-ul- Hind … Al-Biruni’s Kitab-ul-Hind, written in Arabic, is simple and lucid. It is a voluminous text, divided into 80 chapters on subjects such as religion and philosophy, festivals, astronomy, alchemy, manners and customs, social life, weights and measures, iconography, laws and metrology.… 2.1 An early globe-trotter … Ibn Battuta’s book of travels, called Rihla, written in Arabic, provides extremely rich and interesting details about the social and cultural life in the subcontinent in the fourteenth century.… 6. Bernier and the ‘Degenerate’ East … His idea seems to have been to influence policy-makers and the intelligentsia to ensure that they made what he considered to be the ‘right’ decisions. Bernier’s Travels in the Mughal Empire is marked by detailed observations, critical insights and reflection.… …For example, one of the most important descriptions of the city of Vijayanagara (Chapter 7) in the fifteenth century comes from Abdur Razzaq Samarqandi, a diplomat who came visiting from Herat.…” |