Unit V: Medieval society through Travellers’ Accounts

NCERT CHAPTER NAME: THROUGH THE EYES OF TRAVELERS

Broad Overview: Outline of social and cultural life as they appear in travellers’ accounts. Story of their writings: A discussion of where they travelled, why they travelled, what they wrote, and For whom they wrote.

Excerpts: from Alberuni, Ibn Batuta, Bernier.

Discussion: What these travel accounts can tell us and how they have been interpreted by historians.