Early Travels In India 1583-1619 [Hardcover]

About The Book -: The book contains narrative of journey of Englishmen who travelled in the northern and western part of India in the period of Emperor Akbar and Jahangir but this does not end the list of English visitors who travelled in India during this period. The book give experience of the visitors: Ralph Fitch 1583-1591, John Mildenhall 1599-1606, William Hawkins 1608-1613, William Finch 1608-1611, Nicholas Withington 1612-1616, Thomas Coryat 1612-1617, and Edward Terry 1616-1619.It may perhaps be pointed out that at the time (1584) when the earliest of our travellers reached the court of Akbar, the Mughal Empire in India had not yet reached its sixtieth anniversary. It was in 1525 that Babur, then King of Kabul, crushed at Panipat the Afghan dynasty which had ruled at Delhi during the preceding three-quarters of a century. Babur’s son, Humayun, was driven from his throne in 1540 by Sher Shah, the Afghan ruler of Bengal and Bihar, but recovered his kingdom in 1555, only to die in the following year, leaving to his young son Akbar a precarious dominion over a territory which is today represented by parts of the Panjab and the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh.