History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c14.s1.30

c14.s1.30

The English works which I have consulted in the course of my investigations are too many to be mentioned here. But among these there are two which rank as original material. They are Marco Polo’s Travels and Tod’s Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan. Marco Polo, the famous Venetian traveller, visited India towards the close of the 13th century and his observations regarding the geography of the Deccan and the social and political condition of the people are extremely interesting: Yule’s *Travels of Marco Polo* in two volumes with elaborate footnotes is a mine of information. In revising Yule’s work Cordier has shown much learning and critical acumen and has considerably added to the information supplied by the former.