History · Sources of Medieval Indian History
UGC NET June 2020 History
Passage
The Timariots, governors and revenue contractors on their part reason in this manner. Why should the neglected state of this land create uneasiness in our minds? And why should we expend our money and time to render it fruitful? We may be deprived of it in a single moment, and our exertions would benefit neither ourselves nor our children. Let us draw from the soil all the money we can, though the peasant should starve or abscond, and we should leave it, when commanded to quit, a dreary wilderness.
The above observation is made by which of the following European travellers?
AThomas Bowrey
BJean-Baptiste Tavernier
CFrancois Bernier ✓ Correct
DJean de Thevenot
Correct answer: (C) Francois Bernier — The observation is by Francois Bernier, so the answer is Francois Bernier.
Explanation
★The observation is by Francois Bernier, so the answer is Francois Bernier.
★Francois Bernier was a French traveller and physician.
★He travelled in Mughal India in the seventeenth century.
★He wrote critically about the working of the Mughal jagir system.
★This observation about the Timariots draining the soil is from his account.
★So the traveller who made this observation was Francois Bernier.
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