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HCS (Haryana)Prelims2023General Studies
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Match List - I with List - II. List – I (Characteristic) A. Description of Indian Trade and Society B. Visited India six times C. Came to India and never went back to Europe D. Scientist of Mughal Emir Danishmand Khan List – II (Foreign Traveler) 1. Manucci 2. Bernier 3. Barbosa 4. Tavernier Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Options
- A A-1, B-2, C-4, D-3
- B A-3, B-1, C-4, D-2
- C A-4, B-1, C-2, D-3
- D A-3, B-1, C-1, D-2
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D A-3, B-1, C-1, D-2
Model Answer
- Among the best known of the Portuguese writers is Duarte Barbosa, who wrote a detailed account of trade and society in south India.
- Later, after 1600, we find growing numbers of Dutch, English and French travellers coming to India.
- One of the most famous was the French jeweller Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, who travelled to India at least six times. He was particularly fascinated with the trading conditions in India, and compared India to Iran and the Ottoman empire.
- Some of these travellers, like the Italian doctor Manucci, never returned to Europe, and settled down in India.
- François Bernier, a Frenchman, was a doctor, political philosopher and historian. Like many others, he came to the Mughal Empire in search of opportunities. He was in India for twelve years, from 1656 to 1668, and was closely associated with the Mughal court, as a physician to Prince Dara Shukoh, the eldest son of Emperor Shah Jahan, and later as an intellectual and scientist, with Danishmand Khan, an Armenian noble at the Mughal court.
- Hence, option 4 is correct.