| 1. | Marco Polo | Venetian Traveller visited Pandya kingdom | |||
| 2. | Ibn Batuta | Muhammad bin Tughlaq | |||
| 3. | Nicolo Conti | Italian visited Vijayanagar during the reign of Deva Raya I | |||
| 4. | Abdur Razaq | Visited the court of Zamorin in Calicut & travelled to Vijaynagar | |||
| during the reign of Deva Raya II | |||||
| 5. | Nikitin | Russian, visited Bahmani kingdom & Gujarat | |||
| 6. | Nuniz | Portuguese, stayed at Vijayanagar during Krishna Deva Raya | |||
| 7. | Ralph Fitch | British during Akbar’s reign | |||
| 8. | William Hawkins | English merchant. Received a mansab from Jehangir | |||
| 9. | Thomas Roe | Ambassador of English King James I to Jehangir’s court. | |||
| Obtained trade concessions. Wrote “Embassy”. | |||||
| 10. | Peter Mundy | English traveller during Shah Jahan’s reign. | |||
| 11. | Tavernier | French jweller. Aurangzeb’s reign. | |||
| 12. | Bernier | French Physician. Most important account of all European. | |||
| Aurangzeb’s reign. Wrote ‘Travels in the Mughal Empire’. | |||||
| 13. | Nicolo Manucci | Italian. Aurangzeb’s reign. | |||
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