Now I am
going to list brief detail about various Foreign Travellers/ Envoys, who had
travelled across India in various time. These Envoys are as follows :-
1. Megasthenes :- He came to India as the
ambassador of Selecus in the court of Chandra Gupta Maurya. He wrote “Indika”.
2. Deimachos :- The Greek ambassador who came in
the court of Bindusara.
3. Fa-hian :- A Chinese pilgrim visited India
(A.D. 401- 410) during the reign of Chandra Gupta – II of Gupta dynasty.
4. Husan
Tsang :- A
Chinese pilgrim visited India (A.D. 929- 643) during Harsha rule.
5. Wang-
Hiuen- Tse :- A
Chinese envoy who visited India in A.D. 657.
6. I-
Tsing :- A
Chinese scholar who came to study in India at Nalanda in the second half of the
7th century.
7. Sulaiman :- An Arab merchant who visited
India in the middle of the 9th century.
8. Al
Masudi :- A
native of Baghdad who visited India in the first half of 10th
century.
9. Al-
Beruni :- A
noted scientist and scholar from central Asia who lived in India for about ten
years during the early part of the 11th century.
10. Marco
Polo :- A
venetian traveller, who visited south India, particularly the Pandya Kingdom,
on his way to China (A.D. 1288- 93).
11. Ibn
Batutah :- A
resident of Tangier in North Africa (Moroccan) who visited India and lived at
the court of Muhammad- bin- Tuglaq for eight years.
12. Nicolus
Conti :- An
Italian traveller, who visited Vijayanagara empire in 1420 during the reign of
Deva Raya I.
13. Abdur
Razzaq :- The Persian
traveller, who had travelled widely in and outside India, visited the
Vijayanagara empire in the reign of Deva
Raya II.
14. Nikitin :- A Russian Traveller, who visited
the Bahmani Kingdom (A.D. 1470- 74) during the reign of Firoz Shah.
15. Nuniz :- A Portuguese writer of the 16th
century, who visited Vijayanagara empire during the reign of Achuta Raya.
16. Paes :- An Italian traveller, who spent
a number of years at Krishna Deva Ray’s court.
17. Barbosa :- A Portuguese traveller, who
visited Vijayanagara during the reign of Krishna Deva Raya.
18. Vasco-
de- Gama :- A Portuguese
sailor succeeded in reaching the port of Calicut rounding the cape of Gode hope
in A.D. 1498.
19. Caesar
Frederic :- A
venetian traveller, who visited
Vijayanagara in the second half of 16th century.
20. Manucci
:- An Italian
traveller, who witnessed the reign of five Mughal emperor from Shahjahan to
Farrukhsiyar.
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