Ibn Battuta, a Moroccan traveler, arrived in India in 1333 during Tughlaqi rule, under Sultan Muhammad bin Tughlaq, and spent years serving as a judge in Delhi, as well as being a diplomat to China. Here is a bit more information about his visit to India:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Arrival and Purpose:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ibn Battuta entered India in 1333, traveling into the northern regions of the sub-continent through the Hindu Kush Mountains, and the Indus River, for the purpose of working in the Delhi Sultanate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Delhi and Muhammad bin Tughlaq:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ibn Battuta arrived in Delhi while Muhammad bin Tughlaq was the Sultan, and used his status as an educated scholar to become appointed as a judge (qazi) in Delhi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Service and Salary:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ibn Battuta was awarded a welcoming gift of 2000 silver dinars and a comfortable home, as well as an offered salary of 5000 silver dinars per year (drawn from tenants taxes for the crops from the villages).<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Travels and Observations of Different Parts of India:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ibn Battuta traveled extensively throughout the vast lands of India and visited many cities and regions, but some of the notable areas of appreciation were: Bengal, Daulatabad, the coastal cities of Kozhikode and Honnavar, which he chronicled in his travelogue called Rihla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Later Journeys:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n After Ibn Battuta served formally as a judge in Delhi, he was sent by the Sultan to China (after a brief stay in the Maldives) in 1342, and made a trip across Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Back to Morocco:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ultimately, he returned back to Morocco, where he relayed his travelogues to a scholar, providing us much about what the world looked like socially, culturally, and politically during the 14th Century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ibn Battuta, a Moroccan traveler, arrived in India in 1333 during Tughlaqi rule, under Sultan Muhammad bin Tughlaq, and spent years serving as a judge in Delhi, as well as being a diplomat to China. Here is a bit more information about his visit to India: \u2022 Arrival and Purpose: Ibn Battuta entered India in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":172229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5369],"tags":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-172228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-awareness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172230,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172228\/revisions\/172230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172228"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=172228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}