Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c4.s2.t4.1.4

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he is even appointed as the accredited envoy of the Sultan of Delhi to the court of the Chinese Emperor; he even leads the life of an acsetic, the popular rage of the times, and also goes about as a refugee in hiding. However, Ibn Batuta, as every body else, has his intellectual limits. He is sometimes over-anxious as a true Berber to believe in the marvels and miracles of saints. The fact that he never kept any record or notes of his long travels, or made a careful and systematic study of the broad facts of Indian political life, leads him into many errors of observation and sometimes into amusing mis-statements of facts¹. The account of Sidi ‘Ali Reis, though brief, is full of interest. He brought a more cultivated brain to understand the facts of national and international politics and to appreciate the culture of a people. Unfortunately, the unsettled political conditions of India, no less than his devotion to and love of the Ottoman Empire, persuaded him to return too soon.