Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India, A.D. 1000–1800 c11.13

c11.13

Some important names among those who visited India in the fifteenth century (1400-1499) are Nicolo Conti, Abdur Razzaq, Athnasius Nikitin, Santo Stefano and Josafat Barbaro. Nicolo de Conti was in Vijayanagar in 1420. He visited both South and North and returned to his native Italy in 1441. Kamaluddin Abdur Razzaq bin Jamaluddin Ishaq us Samarqandi was an ambassador from Shah Rukh of Persia to the court of Vijayanagar. He visited many places; at Calicut he stayed from November, 1442 to April, 1443; and at Vijayanagar from April, 1443 to November of the same year. The Russian traveller Athnasius Nikitin was in India from 1470 (in which year he visited Golkunda)⁷ to 1474.⁸ Girolamo da Santo Stefano was a Genoese and was in Calicut in 1493. Josaphat Barbaro was an emissary from Venice. He visited "Calicuth" and returned to his homeland in 1478.