Al-biruni relied almost exclusively on the works of what?
What did historians suggest towns derived a significant portion of their wealth from?
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How did Bernier view India in relation to the western world?
What were openly sold in markets, like any other commodity, and were regularly exchanged as gifts?
Who was amazed by the efficiency of the postal system?
Who described the coconut as “Nuts like a man’s head”?
When was ibn battuta ordered to go to china as Muhammad Bin Tughlaq’s envoy to the Mongol ruler?
Who were a doctor, political philosopher, and historian?
What cleanses the air, and the salt in the sea prevents the water from becoming polluted?
Bernier was drawing an oversimplified picture of what?
What practice did Bernier use to describe the treatment of women?
What city did ibn battuta describe as the largest in India?
The ‘Nalayira Divyaprabandham’ of the Alvars was compared with the
What are two deities that devotees often tended to project as supreme?
The poets’ opposition to Buddhism and Jainism is particularly marked in what of the Nayanars?
What is our understanding of the Vira Shaiva tradition derived from?
What tax did the zimmi pay to gain the right to be protected by Muslims?
The pilgrims’ spirited singing bound for what city-inspired Akbar to visit the tomb?
In puri, Orissa, a local deity, was recognized as a form of what?
What did the Avars and Nayanars claim as crucial as the Vedas?
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