ABSTRACT

Originally published in 1909, this book contains a careful dissection and analysis of european travellers in India's narratives; the author has striven throughout to regard the various characters who flit across the following pages in the light as much of adventures and pioneers as of collectors of social and political facts - in other words, the author has tried to preserve in their narrative as much as they could of the large amount of humna interest which naturally invests the subject, and animates the writings, of these early wanderers in India.

chapter Chapter I|25 pages

Introduction

chapter Chapter II|22 pages

Three Fifteenth-Century Pioneers

chapter Chapter III|13 pages

The Coming of the Portuguese

chapter Chapter V|17 pages

The Portuguese Missionary Travellers

chapter Chapter VI|14 pages

The First Englishmen in India

chapter Chapter VII|21 pages

Linschoten—Pyrard de Laval—Pietro della Valle

chapter Chapter VIII|16 pages

English Ambassadors at the Court of Jahangir

chapter Chapter IX|13 pages

Other English Visitors to the Court of Jahangir

chapter Chapter XI|14 pages

Tavernier and Thevenot

chapter Chapter XII|16 pages

François Bernier

chapter Chapter XIII|13 pages

Niccolao Manucci

chapter Chapter XIV|11 pages

Dr John Fryer and Dr Gemelli Careri

chapter Chapter XV|14 pages

Miscellaneous Travellers in the Reign of Aurangzib