The Sultanate of Delhi, 711–1526 A.D. c26.s3.7

c26.s3.7

(In short, the general prosperity of the country is testified to by contemporary sources, both Indian and foreign.) Among the foreign travellers the names of Marco Polo, who visited southern India between 1288 and 1293, Ibn Battuta, who travelled in most parts of our country between 1334 and 1342, and Mahuan, (a Chinese, who visited Bangal in 1406), are of special interest, as all of them have left an account of the country which shows that/both industrially and economically India was prosperous and that there was a “great abundance of all the necessaries of life.”,