How are travelogues an important literary source?
Travelogues play a very important role in reconstructing history as:
a. They give a detailed account about political events, about trade and commerce etc.
b. They given information about the conditions of people of that period.
c. These accounts also gives us about the functioning style of rulers and their courts etc.
d. It gives a first hand account/information of the period. as it includes experiences of the travellers.
Some of the important foreign travellers in the medieval period were:
a. AI-Beruni's who wrote an account of the rulers of Delhi Sultans
b. Minhaj-us-siraj, who wrote greately about political events of this period.
c. Marco Polo who vistied South India giving details about the economic conditions of India.
d. Batuta, who visited during Muhamad Bin Tughlaq's reign.
e. Akbar Razzaq who gave an account of Vijayanagar empire.
a. They give a detailed account about political events, about trade and commerce etc.
b. They given information about the conditions of people of that period.
c. These accounts also gives us about the functioning style of rulers and their courts etc.
d. It gives a first hand account/information of the period. as it includes experiences of the travellers.
Some of the important foreign travellers in the medieval period were:
a. AI-Beruni's who wrote an account of the rulers of Delhi Sultans
b. Minhaj-us-siraj, who wrote greately about political events of this period.
c. Marco Polo who vistied South India giving details about the economic conditions of India.
d. Batuta, who visited during Muhamad Bin Tughlaq's reign.
e. Akbar Razzaq who gave an account of Vijayanagar empire.