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Marco Polo |
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Venetian Traveller visited Pandya kingdom |
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Ibn Batuta |
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Muhammad bin Tughlaq |
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Nicolo Conti |
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Italian visited Vijayanagar during the reign of Deva Raya I |
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Abdur Razaq |
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Visited the court of Zamorin in Calicut & travelled to Vijaynagar |
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during the reign of Deva Raya II |
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Nikitin |
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Russian, visited Bahmani kingdom & Gujarat |
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Nuniz |
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Portuguese, stayed at Vijayanagar during Krishna Deva Raya |
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Ralph Fitch |
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British during Akbar’s reign |
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William Hawkins |
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English merchant. Received a mansab from Jehangir |
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Thomas Roe |
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Ambassador of English King James I to Jehangir’s court. |
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Obtained trade concessions. Wrote “Embassy”. |
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Peter Mundy |
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English traveller during Shah Jahan’s reign. |
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Tavernier |
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French jweller. Aurangzeb’s reign. |
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Bernier |
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French Physician. Most important account of all European. |
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Aurangzeb’s reign. Wrote ‘Travels in the Mughal Empire’. |
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Nicolo Manucci |
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Italian. Aurangzeb’s reign. |