List of Foreign Travellers in Medieval India
In government exams like SSC, Banking, Railways, etc we find many questions from the History general awareness section. this is a very broad section and sometimes questions are very factual. we will cover the General awareness section comprehensively so that students can learn and get most of the questions correct in this section. In this article, we will provide a complete list of Foreign Travellers of Medieval India.
List of Foreign Travellers: Medieval India
S.No |
Name |
Country |
Period |
Ruler/Dynasty |
1 | Marco Polo | Italy | 1288-1292 AD | Pandya Kingdom |
2 | Ibn-e-Battuta | Morocco | 1333-1342 AD | Mohammad Bin Tughlaq |
3 | Niccolo de Conti | Italy | 1420-1422 AD | Deva Raya I |
4 | Tsang Hi | China | 1421-1431 AD | Jalaluddin of Bengal |
5 | Abdur Razzak | Iran | 1442-1443 AD | Deva Raya II |
6 | Athanasius Afanasy Nikitin | Russia | 1470-1474 AD | Muhammad III Bahmani |
7 | Bartolomeu Dias | Portuguese | 1503-1508 AD | Deccan |
8 | Eduardo Barbosa | Portuguese | 1516-1518 AD | Krishna Deva Raya |
9 | Domingo’s Paes | Portuguese | 1520-1522 AD | Krishna Deva Raya |
10 | Nuniz | Portuguese | 1535-1537 AD | Achyuta Deva Raya |
11 | Anthony Monserrate | Portuguese | 1578-1582 AD | Akbar |
12 | Ralph Fisch | English | 1585-1591 AD | Akbar |
13 | Ceaser Fredriseh | Portuguese | 16th Century | Vijayanagara |
14 | John Linschoten | Dutch | 16th Century | Vijayanagara |
15 | Lama Taranatha | Tibet | 16th Century | Eastern India |
16 | Captain Hawkins | English | 1608-1613 AD | Jahangir |
17 | William Fisch | English | 1608-1612 AD | Jahangir |
18 | John Jurdan | Portuguese | 1608-1617 AD | Jahangir |
19 | Nicholas Doughton | English | 1608-1615 AD | Jahangir |
20 | Nicholas Withington | English | 1612-1616 AD | Jahangir |
21 | Thomas Coryat | English | 1612-1617 AD | Jahangir |
22 | Sir Thomas Roe | English | 1615-1619 AD | Jahangir |
23 | Pal Canning | English | 1615-1625 | Jahangir |
24 | Edward Terry | English | 1616-1619 AD | Jahangir |
25 | Francisco Pelsaert | Dutch | 1620-1627 AD | Jahangir |
26 | Pietra Della Velle | Italy | 1622-1660 AD | Jahangir |
27 | John Loyatt | Dutch | 1626-1633 AD | Shahjahan |
28 | John Fryer | English | 1627-1681 AD | Shahjahan |
29 | Peter Mundy | Italy | 1630-1634 AD | Shahjahan |
30 | Tavernier | French | 1641-1687 AD | Shahjahan & Aurangzeb |
31 | Manucci | Italy | 1656-1687 AD | Aurangzeb |
32 | Bernier | France | 1658-1668 AD | Aurangzeb |
33 | Jean de Thevenot | France | 1666-1668 AD | Aurangzeb |
34 | Gemelli Careri | Italy | 1695-1697 AD | Bijapur |
35 | John Sherman | English | 18th Century | Farrukhsiyar |