Answer» Correct Answer - Option 3 : Tavernier and Fryer
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605-89)- He was a firangi in the literal sense – a French visitor to India.
- He kept coming back to Golconda, the kingdom in the Deccan ruled by the Qutb Shahi dynasty.
- Tavernier came to India when Mughal power was at its most magnificent, but also most fragile, in a manner of speaking; the reign of Shahjahan and, later, the troubled times when that Emperor’s sons were battling it out in one of the bloodiest dynastic wars of succession in India’s history.
- Tavernier visited the court of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan and during his visit, he wrote in his account that the king was the owner of all land and no private ownership existed in agricultural land.
- Jean-Baptiste Tavernier was one of the first European visitors to the Taj Mahal.
- Jean Baptiste Tavernier came to Varanasi in 1655.
- He wrote extensively about the art and culture of Varanasi.
- He also wrote about the river Ganga and pointed out the concern of the pollution in the river.
- He was a French Gem merchant who bought the Hope diamond.
- He has given detailed account in his book 'Travels of India.'
One famous visitor to Ahmadabad in the 1600s was the French traveller and gem merchant, Jean Baptiste Tavernier. He describes in his book Travels in India, Tavernier described some of the notable diamonds and rubies which he had seen during the course of his travels. This is the only instance of Tavernier supplying drawings of both rough and polished forms of a diamond.
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