Important Foreign Travelers / Representatives

* Important Foreign Travelers / Representatives * ✍

Here is the list of important foreign travelers and representatives. this list may be helpful for various competitive exam like rrb, ssc or other government exams. please do visit this web page regularly to get latest updated results.

* Megastenus (302-298 BC): Ambassador to Celecus Nicotar, Chandragupta visited Maury's court. He gave a discreet account during the reign of Chakragupta Maurya. *

* Fa-Haine (405-411 AD): They came to India under the rule of Chandragupta II Vikramaditya. Visit the sacred places of Buddhism and gather Buddhist books and relics. He was the first Chinese pilot to visit India. *

Hun-Song (630-645 AD): He visited India during the Harshavardhana period. *

* Eye-tying (671-695 BC): A Chinese traveler who visited India for Buddhism. His work is a great monk biography that provides useful information about the social, religious and cultural life of the people of this country. *

* Al-Masudi (957 AD): Arab travelers extend Idnia in Muruz-ul-Zahab extensively. *

* Al-Beruni (1024-1030 AD): His real name was Abu Rehman Mahmood and he came to India with Ghazni Muhammad in India's attack. He traveled across India and wrote the book Tahik-e-Hind. This book deals with social, religious and political situations in India. *

* Marco Polo (1292-1294 AD): A Venetian traveler who visited South India in 1294 AD (Madhvaran Kulshakeera: 1272-1311 during the Pandyas rule in Madurai). His book 'Mark Polo Book' offers a valuable account of India's economic history. *

Ibn Battuta (1333-1347 AD): A Morris passenger, visited India during the rule of Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq. His book 'Rehla' (The Travelogue) illuminates light during the reign of Muhammad-bin-Tughluq and is in India in geographical, economic and social conditions. *

Shihabuddin al-Umari (1348 AD): He came from Damascus. He gives India a clear account in the book 'Masalik alber fi mamalik al-amar'. *

* Nicolò Conti (1420-1421 AD): A Venetian Passenger gives an extensive description of the Vijayanagara Hindu empire. *

* Abdur Razak (1443-1444 AD): He came to India and was a Persian traveler who lived in Zamorin's court of Calicut. He has given a vivid account of the Vijayanagar empire, especially the city. He describes rich and luxurious life and wealthy lives. *

Athanasius Nikitin (1470-1474 AD): A Russian merchant who visited South India in 1470. He describes the status of the Bahmani Empire under Muhammad III (1463-82). *

* Duarte Barbossa (1500-1516 AD): They were Portuguese tourists. They have given the precious representation of government people and the Vijayanagar empire. *

* Dominigo Paes (1520-1522 AD): A Portuguese traveler who visited Krishna Deva Raya of the Vijayanagar empire. *

* Femão Nuniz (1535-1537 AD): Portuguese merchant visits the Vijayanagar empire. He wrote the history of the empire from the periods of the anti-Goddess reign. *

* John Huggen von Lynchtenstein (1583 AD): A Dutch traveler who gave a valuable account of South Indian social and economic life. *

* William Hawkins (1608-1611 AD): He was an English ambassador to the British King James I, to the Jehangir Court (1609). *

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