Through the Eyes of Travelers: Perceptions of Society
Madhya Pradesh Board · Class 12 · History
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- Travellers recorded unusual and everyday details of social life.
- Their accounts help reconstruct society, economy, and culture.
- Each traveller had a distinct purpose and perspective.
- Al-Biruni was a scholar from Khwarizm.
- He was taken to Ghazni by Sultan Mahmud in 1017.
- Kitab-ul-Hind was written in Arabic and divided into 80 chapters.
- Hindu originally referred to a region, not a religion.
- The varna order described by Al-Biruni runs from Brahmana to Shudra.
- He compared Indian social divisions with those in ancient Persia.
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Al-Biruni wrote Kitab-ul-Hind in Persian or Sanskrit.
Al-Biruni translated Patanjali into Sanskrit and Euclid into Arabic.
The term Hindu originally meant a follower of Hinduism.
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Al-Biruni taken to Ghazni by Sultan Mahmud
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