Foreign Travellers in Medieval India

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foreign travelers william hawkins thomas roe vasco da gama in india nicolo conti visited vijayanagar

 

Foreign Travellers before 1500

Name

Country

Time

Ruler / Dynasty

Book / Remarks  

Al-Masudi

Arab

957

 

Muruj-ul-Zehab

Al-beruni

Uzbekistan

1024-30

Sultan Mahmud

Tahqiq-i-Hind

Marco Polo

Italy

1288-92

Pandya

Kakatiya

Book of Sir Marco Polo

Ibn-e-Batuta

Morocco

1333-42

Mohammad Bin Tughlaq

Rehla

Shihabuddin al-Umari

Damascus

1348

 

Masalik albsar fi-mamalik al-amsar

Nicolo Conti

Italy

1420-22

Dev Ray I

 

Tsang Hi (Mahuan)

China

1421-31

Jalaluddin of Bengal

 

Abdur Razzak

Iran

1442-43

Dev Ray II

 

Athnasius Niketin

Russia

1470-74

Mohammad III, Bahmani

 

Vasco da Gama

Portugal

1498

Zamorin

 

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Foreign Travellers 1500-1600

Name

Country

Time

Ruler / Dynasty

Book / Remarks  

Ludovico de Varthema

Italy

 

Gujrat,

Vijayanagar

 

Duarte Barbosa

Portugal

1500-16

Krishna Dev Ray

 

Domingo’s Paes

Portugal

1520-22

Krishna Dev Ray

 

Nuniz

Portugal

1535-37

Achyut Dev Ray

 

Anthony Monserrate

Portugal

1578-82

Akbar

 

Ralph Fitch

England

1585-91

Akbar

 

John Mildenhall

England

1603

Akbar

1st recorded burial of an Englishman in India

Ceaser Fredriseh

 

 

Vijay Nagar

 

John Linscoten

Dutch

 

Vijay Nagar

 

Lama Taranath

Tibet

 

Eastern India

 

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Foreign Travellers 1600-20

Name

Country

Time

Ruler / Dynasty

Book / Remarks  

William Hawkins

England

1608-13

Jahangir

King James I

William Fisch

England

1608-12

Jahangir

 

John Jurdan

Portugal

1608-17

Jahangir

 

Nicholos Doughton

England

1608-15

Jahangir

 

Nicholos Withurgton

England

1612-16

Jahangir

 

Thomas Coryat

England

1612-17

Jahangir

 

Thomas Roe

England

1615-19

Jahangir

King James I

Pal Canning

England

1615-25

Jahangir

 

Edward Terry

England

1616-19

Jahangir

 

Francisco Paelsert

Dutch

1620-27

Jahangir

 

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Foreign Travellers after 1620

Name

Country

Time

Ruler / Dynasty

Book / Remarks  

Pietra Della Velle

Italy

1622-60

Jahangir

 

John Loyatt

Dutch

1626-33

Shahjahan

 

John Fryer

England

1627

Shahjahan

 

Peter Mundy

Italy

1630-34

Shahjahan

 

John Albert de Mandesto

Germany

1638

visited Surat

 

Baptiste Tavernier

France

1641-87

Shahjahan

Aurangzeb

 

Nicolao Manucci

Italy

1656-87

Dara Shikoh

 

François Bernier

France

1658-68

Aurangzeb

Physician of Dara Sikho

Jean de Thevnot

France

1666-68

Aurangzeb

 

John Fryer

English

1672-81

Surat and Bombay

 

Gammilly Careri

Italy

1695-97

Bijapur

 

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