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Travels in the Mughal Empire (A.D. 1656-1668)

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Item Code: UAI650
Author: Francois Bernier
Publisher: GULSHAN BOOKS, KASHMIR
Language: English
Edition: 2012
ISBN: 9788183391771
Pages: 428 (Throughout B/W Illustrations)
Cover: HARDCOVER
Other Details 10.00 X 6.50 inch
Weight 840 gm
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About The Book

The desire of seeing the world, which had induced me to visit Palestine and Egypt, still prompted me to extend my travels, and I formed the design of exploring the Red Sea from one end to the other. In pursuance of this plan, I quitted Grand Cairo, where I had resided more than a year, and in two and-thirty hours (travelling at a Caravan rate) reached the town of Suez. Here 1 embarked in a galley, and was conveyed in seventeen days, always hugging the coast, from Suez to the port of Gidda, half a day's journey from Mecca. Contrary to my expectation, and in violation of a promise which I had received from the Beig' of the Red Sea, I was constrained to land on this so-called holy territory of Mohammed, where no Christian, who is not a slave dares set his foot. After a detention of nearly five weeks, I took my passage on board a small vessel, which, sailing along the shores of Arabia Felix, brought me in fifteen days to Moka, near the straits of Bab el-mandel. It was now my intention to pass over to the island of Masoua, and Arkiko, on my way to Gonder, the capital of Habech, or Kingdom of Ethiopia; but I was informed that Catholics were not safe in that country, since the period when, through the intrigues of the Queen-Mother, the Portuguese were slaughtered, or expelled, with the Jesuit Patriarch whom they had brought thither from Goa; and that, in fact, an unhappy Capuchin had been recently beheaded at Suaken, for having attempted to enter the kingdom. It seemed, indeed, that less risk would be incurred if I adopted the disguise of a Greek or an Armenian; and that when the king knew I could be of service to him, he would probably make me a grant of land, which might be cultivated by slaves, if I possessed the means of purchasing them; but that I should, at the same time, be compelled to marry immediately, as a monk, who had assumed the character of a Greek Physician, had already been obliged to do; and that I could never hope to obtain permission to quit the country.

About the Author

François Bernier (1625-22 September 1688) was a French physician and traveller. He was born at Joué-Etiau in Anjou. He was the personal physician of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb for around 12 years during his stay in India.

A tour of inspection by Aurangzeb (1664-1665) gave Bernier the opportunity to describe Kashmir, the first and for a long time the only European to do so. In: "Voyages de F. Bernier (angevin) contenant la description des Etats du Grand Mogol, de Hindustan, du royaume de Kachemire" (David-Paul Mareted., Amsterdam, 1699). He subsequently visited the other extreme of the empire in Bengal. European medical training was highly esteemed amongst the Mughal and gave him access to all ranks of the court, even on medically required occasions to the Emperor's harem.

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