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Accounts of Foreign Travelers in Ancient India

Hi everyone.

This post is about the various foreign travelers who came to ancient India and authored books on India that serve as one of the important sources of the knowledge on that period. Here I list the travelers and their countries and the name of their books.



NameNationalityName of BookEmperor
MegasthenesGreekIndika Chandragupta Maurya
Fa-HienChineseRecord of Buddhist KingdomsChandragupta II
Hiuen Tsang or XuanzangChineseTsi-Yu-Ki Harshavardhana
Al BeruniArabTahqiq-i-Hind or Kitab-ul-HindMahmud of Ghazni
Marco PoloItalianThe Book of Sir Marco PoloQueen Rudrama Devi & Delhi Sultanate
Ibn BatutaMoroccanRehlaMuhammad Bin Tughlaq
Abdul RazzaqPersianMatla-us-Sadainwa, Majma-ul-BahrainDevaraya II

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