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Put the following travelers to India who left accounts in a chronological order from the earliest to last.

A. Duarte Barbosa from Portugal

B. Antonio Monserrate from Spain

C. Afanasii Nikitich Nikitin from Russia

D. Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Abu Raihan al-Biruni from Uzbekistan

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Solution

✅ Correct Option: 2

Al-Biruni came with Mahmud of Ghazni in the early eleventh century and wrote Kitab-ul-Hind, so D is earliest. Afanasy Nikitin travelled to the Bahmani kingdom in the 1470s, so C is next. Duarte Barbosa wrote about the west coast in the early sixteenth century, so A follows. Antonio Monserrate, the Jesuit at Akbar's court, came in the 1580s, so B is last.

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