Screening Paper I · 1 History & Culture · APPSC Group 1
1.3.13 Medieval travellers and culture notes
4 notes, in reading order.
- 1.3.13.1Travellers to medieval India: Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, Abdur Razzaq, Conti, Paes and Nuniz
Foreign visitors from Italy, Morocco, Persia, Portugal and Russia left eyewitness accounts of the Sultanate, the Kakatiya coast, the Bahmani kingdom and Vijayanagara, and exams ask who came from where, when, and what they wrote.
Advanced · 6 min · Full course - 1.3.13.2European travellers to Mughal India: Hawkins, Roe, Tavernier, Bernier and Manucci
Europeans who came as traders, envoys, doctors and jewellers to the Mughal court left accounts that describe the empire's wealth, cities and court, and Bernier's account fed a long debate about Asian despotism and land ownership.
Advanced · 6 min · Full course - 1.3.13.3Regional languages and literature in medieval India
From c. 1000 to 1700 regional languages rose beside Sanskrit and Persian, carried by bhakti saints, sultan and Vijayanagara courts, and exams ask for the author and work.
Advanced · 6 min · Full course - 1.3.13.4Medieval technology and music: the Persian wheel, paper, Hindustani and Carnatic music
Between the 13th and 17th centuries new devices (Persian wheel, paper, spinning wheel, gunpowder) spread in India, and the music tradition split into Hindustani and Carnatic streams with Tansen and Purandaradasa as landmark names.
Advanced · 6 min · Full course
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