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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