List of Foreign Travellers in Medieval India

In government exams like SSC, Banking, Railways, etc we find many questions from the History general awareness section. this is a very broad section and sometimes questions are very factual. we will cover the General awareness section comprehensively so that students can learn and get most of the questions correct in this section. In this article, we will provide a complete list of Foreign Travellers of Medieval India.

List of Foreign Travellers: Medieval India

S.No	Name	Country	Period	Ruler/Dynasty
1	Marco Polo	Italy	1288-1292 AD	Pandya Kingdom
2	Ibn-e-Battuta	Morocco	1333-1342 AD	Mohammad Bin Tughlaq
3	Niccolo de Conti	Italy	1420-1422 AD	Deva Raya I
4	Tsang Hi	China	1421-1431 AD	Jalaluddin of Bengal
5	Abdur Razzak	Iran	1442-1443 AD	Deva Raya II
6	Athanasius Afanasy Nikitin	Russia	1470-1474 AD	Muhammad III Bahmani
7	Bartolomeu Dias	Portuguese	1503-1508 AD	Deccan
8	Eduardo Barbosa	Portuguese	1516-1518 AD	Krishna Deva Raya
9	Domingo’s Paes	Portuguese	1520-1522 AD	Krishna Deva Raya
10	Nuniz	Portuguese	1535-1537 AD	Achyuta Deva Raya
11	Anthony Monserrate	Portuguese	1578-1582 AD	Akbar
12	Ralph Fisch	English	1585-1591 AD	Akbar
13	Ceaser Fredriseh	Portuguese	16th Century	Vijayanagara
14	John Linschoten	Dutch	16th Century	Vijayanagara
15	Lama Taranatha	Tibet	16th Century	Eastern India
16	Captain Hawkins	English	1608-1613 AD	Jahangir
17	William Fisch	English	1608-1612 AD	Jahangir
18	John Jurdan	Portuguese	1608-1617 AD	Jahangir
19	Nicholas Doughton	English	1608-1615 AD	Jahangir
20	Nicholas Withington	English	1612-1616 AD	Jahangir
21	Thomas Coryat	English	1612-1617 AD	Jahangir
22	Sir Thomas Roe	English	1615-1619 AD	Jahangir
23	Pal Canning	English	1615-1625	Jahangir
24	Edward Terry	English	1616-1619 AD	Jahangir
25	Francisco Pelsaert	Dutch	1620-1627 AD	Jahangir
26	Pietra Della Velle	Italy	1622-1660 AD	Jahangir
27	John Loyatt	Dutch	1626-1633 AD	Shahjahan
28	John Fryer	English	1627-1681 AD	Shahjahan
29	Peter Mundy	Italy	1630-1634 AD	Shahjahan
30	Tavernier	French	1641-1687 AD	Shahjahan & Aurangzeb
31	Manucci	Italy	1656-1687 AD	Aurangzeb
32	Bernier	France	1658-1668 AD	Aurangzeb
33	Jean de Thevenot	France	1666-1668 AD	Aurangzeb
34	Gemelli Careri	Italy	1695-1697 AD	Bijapur
35	John Sherman	English	18th Century	Farrukhsiyar