Name: Ibn Battuta's Incredible 14th-Century Travels
Uploaded: 2019-07-19
Duration: 4 min 37 s
Description: The Incredible Journey of Ibn Battuta: A Fourteenth-Century Globe-Trotter

Question

Compare and contrast the perspectives from which Ibn Battuta and Bernier wrote their accounts of their travels in India.

Accepted Answer

Both accounts have been written from different perspectives.

Ibn Battuta :

(i) He has described India with an impressive and excited notion because of his novelty.

(ii) Ibn Battuta has described India with a different culture, belief, values and people.

(iii) In order to ensure that the listener or the reader was suitably impressed, He used narrative style. Highlighted anything that was unfamiliar and different.

Bernier:

(i) Bernier had followed a different intellectual tradition. He presented an account of whatever he saw in India.

(ii) His objective was to compare and contrast things in India with Europe. He perceived differences hierarchically.

(iii) He emphasised the superiority of Europe and represented India as inferior to the western world.

Compare and contrast the perspectives from which Ibn Battuta and Bernier wrote their accounts of their travels in India.

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