Answer: During the Medieval and Ancient time in India lot of foreign travellers play an important role. Administration and various reconstruction flourish in this period.
Various traveler accounts from abroad
Abdur Razak
- Abdur Razak Visited Vijayanagar Kingdom during the period of Devaraya 2nd (Sangam dynasty).
- He was well described about wealth and trade of the empire according to Abdur Razak Vijayanagar Kingdom was centre of appreciation
- Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Battutah was a was a scholar and adventurer from the Berber Maghreb who spent a lot of time in the Muslim world and other parts of Afro-Eurasia.
- He functioned as the chief Qazi during his stay in Delhi.
- All the information and traveling experience mention in his book ‘Rihala’.
- The splendour, opulence, and prosperity of Kannauj, the centre of Harsha’s dominion in the seventh century, are vividly described by Xuanzang.
- Indian civilization in the fifth century is shown in a positive and romanticised light by Fa-Hien.
- He described about peaceful, happy and contended peoples. How to people make full with pleasure.
- The farmers and other peoples working on the royal land had to pay a certain part of their produce to the king.
Thus, by connecting them to other recent historical sources like the Court Chronicles, travel information can aid in the reconstruction of the past.
