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Q49 (CDS-II/2010) History & Culture › Medieval India › Medieval intellectual culture Answer Verified

Consider the following statements about the famous traveller Ibn Battuta : 1. He was a Moroccan traveller 2. He narrated his experiences while travelling the sub-continent in the fourteenth century in Kitab-ul-Hind. - 3. He was sent as the envoy of sultan of Delhi to China. . Which of the statements given above is/are correct ? .

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Ibn Battuta was a renowned Moroccan traveller who visited the Indian subcontinent in the fourteenth century [c3][t4]. Statement 1 is correct as he was born in Tangier, Morocco [t4][t7]. Statement 2 is incorrect because Ibn Battuta's travelogue is titled 'Rihla' (or Kitab-ul-Rihla), written in Arabic [t1][t2]. 'Kitab-ul-Hind' was actually authored by the eleventh-century scholar Al-Biruni [t2][t6]. Statement 3 is correct; Sultan Muhammad bin Tughlaq, impressed by Battuta's scholarship, appointed him as the qazi of Delhi and later sent him as his official envoy (ambassador) to the Mongol ruler of China in 1342 [t2][t3][t5]. During this mission, he travelled through the Malabar coast and the Maldives before reaching China [t2][t5]. Therefore, only statements 1 and 3 are accurate.

Sources

  1. [1] THEMES IN INDIAN HISTORY PART II, History CLASS XII (NCERT 2025 ed.) > Chapter 5: Through the Eyes of Travellers > The child sati > p. 137
  2. [2] https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666192
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