Who among the following was associated with the Mughal Court as a physician to Prince Dara Shikoh?
Francois Bernier
The correct answer is Francois Bernier.
Francois Bernier: Francois Bernier was a French physician and traveler who came to India around 1658 and stayed for about twelve years. He was indeed associated with the Mughal court. He served as a physician to Prince Dara Shikoh for a brief period and later was attached to the court of Emperor Aurangzeb. His book, 'Travels in the Mughal Empire', is a key source of information about this period. Therefore, Francois Bernier was associated with the Mughal Court as a physician to Prince Dara Shikoh.
Similar Questions
Who among the following has described the medieval Indian postal system as of two kinds—the horse-post called ‘Uluq’ and the foot-post called ‘Dawa’?
Who among the following travellers was from Italy and visited Vijayanagar Kingdom in the fifteenth century?
Which of the following were features of the postal system of India as described by Ibn Battuta?
1. The foot post carries a ringing bell in one hand.
2. The horse post is called uluq, stationed at a distance of every four miles.
3. The foot post or dawa has one station at every four kos of distance.
4. The foot post is quicker than the horse post.
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
- Arrange the following foreign travel-lers to India in chronological order, beginning with the earliest :
1. Peter Mundy
2. Antonio Monserrate
3. Afanasii Nikitich Nikitin
4. Ibn Battuta
Select the answer using the code given below: Consider the following statements about the travellers who visited India:
1. Abdur Razzaq Samarqandi from Herat visited Delhi and Daulatabad
2. lbn Battuta provides detailed accounts of both Delhi and Daulatabad
3. According to Francois Bernier, there was no private property in land in Mughal India.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Important Questions from Travellers of Medieval India
Foreign traveller Ibn Battuta, who came to India during the medieval period, had come from?
Francisco Pelsart was a _____ traveller.
Who among the following foreign travelers wrote that the Vijayanagara Empire had an estimated "90,000 men fit to bear arms"?
Pick the right sequence as per chronological order in terms of visits of the following foreign travelers in India
A. Marco Polo
B. Duarte Barbosa
C. Nikitin
D. Peter Mundy
E. Francois Bernier
Choose the correct answer from the options given below
Who among the following travellers visited a "Hospital of Birds" at Cambay in 1623-24, where he saw some lame, sick and mateless birds and some tiny orphan mice. He writes, "A venerable old man with a white beard was keeping them in a box amongst cotton, with his spectacles on his nose, giving them milk to eat with a bird's feather, because they were so little that as yet they could eat nothing else, and as he told us, he intended when they are grown up to let them go free whither they please".
