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he winds bent The Trees with a fragrance of rich adventure, and intrigue. It gilded past, unnoticed by most; but every once in a while, a keen mind could feel that fragrance. And, throwing caution to the very same

winds that brought The Promise, they walked on Traders, they were called; but, all are clipped in: privateers, pilgrims, merchants, explorers, padres, spies,adventurers all are, in The Book, under that same name: Traveller. From times BC up to the early 20thcentury, there has been something real and surreal about distances. From Arrian, to Richard Burton; Al- Baruni, to Alexander Burns; Hieun Tsang, to Franois Bernier, each has been a first and last. Fortunately for us, some have left behind works of their Travels. Eye witness accounts of 7th century Kashmir;the intrigues in the courts of Bokhara, in the 19th century; journals of the seafarers, sailing the oceans of AncientIndia; the happenings in Persia, in the 17th century. So many Travelers, and a rich harvest of knowledge they leftbehind for us; to sift, and to understand how to move forward. See the past ages stir up, as you leaf through thebooks: the hot deserts of Arabia; the icy solitudes of Tibet; the Ports of Bombay; the Delhi Durbar; from thebroken swords lying in the high mountains of the Himalayas, to the Jewel of the Crown on the Malabar Coast.And, at last: Finally: The Paradise of India. All: were, are, and will be, will be forever intrigued with India! Peaceto All who Travel.

Country Year of Arrival Author

Afghanistan 1442 Abdur Razzak (of Herat). Ambassador. Author of Matlu'u-s Sa'dain wa Majma' ul-l Bahrain 1527 Khondamir (of Herat). His works include Qanuni-Humayuni

Africa 1333 Ibn-Batuta. Author of Tuhfat-un-Nuzzar fi Gharaib ul-Amsar wa Ajaib-ul-Afsar or Rehla America 1812 Adoniram Judson. Missionary

1833 Nathan Brown. Scholar. Linguist and philologist. Author of Comparison of Indo-Chinese language

1836 William Robinson. Missionary. Author of A Grammar of Assamese language 1836 Harriet Low. Compiled Vocabulary and phrases in English and Assamese 1836 Oliver T.Cutter. Printer. Edited Orunodoi 1848 Appleton Danforth. Missionary. Edited Orunodoi

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1848 William Ward. Missionary. Scholar. Edited Orunodoi 1850 Fitz-Edward Hall. Sanskrit scholar. Author of A contribution towards an index of the philosophy

of the Indian philosophical systems 1853 Bayard Taylor.. Author of A visit to India, China and Japan in the year 1853 1856 William Butler.. Missionary. Author of The land of the Veda 1858 James Talboys Wheeler. Author of History of India 1867-81 1864 Samuel Kellogg. Missionary. Author of Grammar of the Hindi language; etc. 1874 Clara Swain. Doctor 1876 William T.Hornady. Zoologist 1876 AK.Gurney. Missionary. Author of Old Testament into Assamese 1878 Colonel Olcott. Theosophist 1878 General Grant and Julia Grant. visited India. See John Russell Young. Around the world with

General Grant 1879 F.Marion Crawford. Novelist. Portrayed Anglo-Indian life in Mr. Isaacs. Edited Indian Herald

(Allahabad) 1883 Sidney W.Rivenburg. Missionary. Author of Angami-English phrases 1888 Charles Rockwell Lanman. Sanskrit scholar. Author of Jataka Mala etc. 1896 Mark Twain. Humorist and celebrated writer. He touches on India in his travelogue, Following

the Equator 1901 Abraham Valentine Jackson. Author of Avesta grammar in comparison with Sanskrit; etc. c. 1902 Eliza Ruhana Scidmore. Author of Winter India c. 1905 William Borden. Director of State Libraries, Baroda 1936 Theos C.Bernard. Author of Heaven lies with us and Penthouse of the Gods

Arab c. AD. 851 Sulaiman A.. A merchant. Author of Salsilatu-t-tawarikh; with additions by Abu Zaid c. AD. 870 AI -Biladuri. Died AD. 892. Author of Futu' hu-l Bulda'n 915 AI -Masudi. Author of Muruju-l Zahab c. A.D. 951 Abu Ishak Al Istakhri. Author of Kitabu-l Akalim c. A.D. 951 Ibn Hawqal. Author of Ashkalu-l Bilad c. A.D. 1000 Abu Dulaf Mis'ar bin Muhalhil. Poet. His original account in Arabic has been translated into

French by G. Ferrand and into German by Avon Rohr-Sauer c. A.D. 1017 Alberuni. Author of Tarikh-i-Hind c. A.D. 1150 AI -Idrisi.Geog. Geographer. Author of Muzhat-al-Mushtaq 1724/25 Abbas bin Ali a. Author of Nuzhat-ul-Jalis wa Munyat-ul-Anis

Austria 1774 Johann Philipp. Author of Viaggio alle Indie orientali, pub. under pseudonym of Fra Paolino da S. Bartolomeo

1843 Aloys Sprenger. Author of English Hindustani grammar; etc. 1766 Josephy Tiffenthaler.

Belgium 1799 Francois Baltha. Artist. Author of Les Hindous 1875 Count Eugene Go. Correspondent of Independence Belge. Author of Inde et Himalaya; etc. 1878 Archbishop Geot. Came to India as a Bishop

Canada c. 1890 Sarah Jeannette. Correspondent of Toronto Globe and Montreal Star. Author of The simple adventures of memsahib; etc.

1950 Elise Aylen.Au. Author of The Night of the Lord 1977 Jannette Turner. Author of The ivory swing

China c. AD.401 Fah -Hien. Buddhist monk. Author of Fo-koue-ki 630 Hiuen Tsang. Buddhist monk. Author of Hsi- Yu-shi 675 I -tsing. Buddhist monk. Author of A record of the Buddhist religion as practised in India and

Malay archipelago. Tr. by 1. Takakusu 727 Hui -Chao. 13th cent. Chao Ju - Kua.Au. Author of Chu-fan-Chih 1330-49 Wang Ta- Yuan.. Author of Tao-i-Chi-Pio 15th cent. Cheng Ho.

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15th cent. Fei Hsin. Author of Hsing-cha-Sheng-Ian 15th cent. Ma Huan. Author of Ying-yai-Sheng-Ian 518 Sung-Yun.

Croatia 1295 Marco Polo. Born in Korcula, Croatia. He was a citizen of Venice. See the entry under Italy. 1625 Nikola Ratkaj. Missionary 1776 Ivan Filip Vezdin. Missionary. Author of 20 books on India including Viaggio alle Indie Orientali 1338 Giovanni de Marignolli. Bishop. Author of Cronica boemorum 1616 W.P. Kirwitzer. Mathematician. Author of Observations cometarum auni 1618 factae a nostris in

India Orientali 1749 Karel Prikryl. Theologian. Author of Epistolae, quibus civitas, collegium et portus Goani, mores

Orientalium describuntur et errores plurium, qui in bac materia versati sunt, deteguntur; etc. 1753 Vaclav Prutky - Remedius . Franciscan monk. Author of Itinerary 19th cent. Ian Vilem Helfer Naturalist. Naturalist. Diaries were published in 1873 1831 Stephanus Tamasko. Sanskrit and Vedic scholar. Author of De Causis linguae Sanscitae 1863 Ferdinand Stoliczka. Geologist. Wrote on the fauna of South India and on the geology of the

route to Kashgar 1863 Otakar Feistmantel. Geologist. Published observations on culture, history, agriculture, etc. and

organized the first exhibition on India in Prague in 1884 1909 Otakar Pertold. Author of Cesty po Hindustanu 1947 Herman Klacko.. Diplomat. Author of Svetla a tiene Indie

Denmark 1618 Ove Gjedde. Admiral 1622 Jon Olafsson. Author of The life of the Icelander Jon Olafsson c. 1670 Fredrik Bolling. Published in 1678 a report of his experiences. Author of Friderici Bollingii

OostIndiske Reise-bog, hvor udi befattis hans Reise til Oost-Indien; etc. 1719 Benjamin Schulze. Lutheran missionary. Author of Hindustani Grammar; etc. 1821 Rasmus Christian Rask. Philologist. Author of Frisische Sprachlehre, bearb nach dem namlichen

Plane wie die Islandische und sac-Angelsache c. 1841 Niel Ludwig Westergaad. Orientalist. Author of Zendavesta; etc.

England A.D. 883 Sighelmus. Believed to have been sent to India by Alfred 1579 Thomas Stephens. Missionary. Author of The Christian Purana; etc. 1583 Ralph Fitch. Travelled with Levant merchants. See Ralph Fitch-England's pioneer to India and

Burma/Myanmar 1603 John MildenhalI. Visited the Court of Jahangir. Author of a letter written on October 3, 1606

from Persia 1607 Capt.R.Coverte. Author of True and almost incredible report of an Englishman 1608 William Finch. Merchant. Agent to an expedition which obtained trading privileges from the East

India Co. Wrote letters from Lahore. Published in Purchas his pilgrims 1608 William Hawkins. Sea Captain and merchant. Author of Hawkins' voyages 1611 Henry Middleton. Merchant and sea Captain. Wrote letters. Published in Purchas his pilgrims 1612 Nicholas Withington. English Factor. 1612 Thomas Best. His observations are published in Purchas his pilgrims 1615 Thomas Roe. Diplomat. Author of The embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great

Mogul 1615 Edward Terry. 1616 Thomas Coryat.. Reached Agra in October. 1616. Author of Corayat's crudities; with letters from

India 1628 Peter Mundy. Worked as a cabin-boy on a merchant ship. Author of The travels of Peter Mundy

in Europe and Asia 1630 Henry Lord. Missionary. Author of A discoverie of the sect of the Banians; etc. 1655 John Burnell. Author of Bombay in the days of Queen Anne 1668 John Marshall. Perhaps the first Englishman to study Indian antiquities. Author of Notes and

observations on East India 1670s John Fryer. Travelled in the East. Author of A new account of East India and Persia

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1689 John Ovington. Chaplain at Surat. Author of A voyage to Surat in the year 1689 c. 1705 Alexander Hamilton. Author of A new account of the East Indies 1732 John Zephaniah Holwell. Surgeon to the East India Co. Author of Narrative of the black hole;

etc. 1742 Robert Orme. Accountant General. Author of A history of the military transactions of the British

nation in Indostan 1748 William Herbert. Hydrographer. Author of A new directory for the East Indies 1750 John Henry Grose. A writer in the East India Co.'s service. Author-of A voyage to the East

Indies 1755 Edward Ives. Naval surgeon and traveller. Author of A voyage from England to India 1758 William Nichols. Sailed to the East Indies on board the Elizabeth. Author of Sundry remarks and

observations made in a voyage 1760 James Rennell.. Surveyor. Author of the Bengal atlas; etc. 1760 Alexander Dow.. Author of The history of Hindustan, from the earliest account of time to the

death of Akbar 1765 James Forbes. Member of the L.C.S., an artist and a scholar. Author of Oriental memoirs; etc. 1769 William Hickey. Law officer with the East India Co. Author of Memoirs 1770 Charles Wilkins. Orientalist and Sanskrit scholar. Writer in the East India Co.'s service.Translated

Hitopadesa; etc. 1773 Nathaniel Brassey Halhed. Orientalist and linguist. Author of A code of gentoo laws; etc. 1776 William Roxburgh. Botanist. Supdt., Calcutta Botanical Garden. Author of Plants of the coast of

Coromandel; etc. Left Mss on Indian Botany 1776 Charles Hamilton. Translated The Hedaya or Guide to Muhammadan Law 1778 William Hodges. . Landscape painter. Author of Travels in India during the years 1780-83; etc. 1779 Eliza Fay. Wife of Anthony Fay, who practised in the courts of Calcutta. Author of Original

letters from India 1780 Innes Munro.Lieut. Fought against Hyder Ali. Author of A narrative of the military operations

on the Coromandel coast 1781 Donald Campbell. Captain in the service of the Nawab of the Carnatic. Author of A narrative of

the extra-ordinary adventures. . 1781 David Price. Worked in the army; Judge-advocate, Bombay Army. Author of A chronological

retrospect of Muhammadan history; etc. 1781 Patrick Russell. Physician and naturalist; botanist to the East India Co. in the Carnatic. Author of

The poisonous snakes on the Coromandel coast; etc. 1782 H.T.Colebrooke. Orientalist and Professor, Fort William College. Author of A digest of Hindu

law; etc. 1782 George Forster. East India Co.'s Civil Service. Author of A journey from Bengal to England etc. 1782 John Malcolm. Administrator and diplomat. Author of Political history of India; etc. 1782 Edward Moor. Served with the Maharatta army; member, Asiatic Society of Calcutta. Wrote on

Hindu mythology. Author of Hindu pantheon; etc. 1783 William Jones. Orientalist and jurist; founded Bengal Asiatic Society; Judge, High Court, Calcutta.

Wrote on Hindu religion and law. Translated Hitopadesa; etc. 1784 Thomas Daniell. Artist. Author of Oriental scenery 1784 William Daniell. Artist. Author of A picturesque voyage to India; etc. 1788 Mathew Ainslie. Doctor. Author of Materia medica of Hindustan . 1790 Robert Home. Artist. Author of The select views in Mysore 1791 Charles Gold. Artist. Author of Oriental drawings 1792 Thomas Twining. Visited India and the United States. Author of Travels in India 1794 N.E.Kindersley. Civil servant. Author of A letter on the propagation of Christianity in India; etc. c. 1794 Joshua Marshman. Linguist. Edited Samachar Darpan, the first Bengali weekly in 1818 1795 Thomas Duel ' Broughton. Worked with the Bengal & Madras establishments. Author of Letters

from a Maratha camp; etc. 1797 Claudius Buchan. Missionary. Author of Christian researches in Asia 1799 John Clark Marshman. Educationist. Accompanied his father Joshua Marshman to Serampur.

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Edited Friend of India. Author of History of Bengal; etc. 1799 James Tod. Attached to the Resident at Gwaliof' surveyed and mapped Rajasthan. Author of

Annals and antiquities of Rajasthan; etc. 1804 Robert Melville. Artist and Captain, Bombay Native Infantry. Author of Scenery, costumes and

architecture .. . 1804 Mary Martha Sherwood. Wife of Captain Henry Sherwood of the 53rd regt. Author of The

Indian pilgrim; etc. 1804 William Taylor. Bengal Civil Service. Artist. Author of Sketches illustrating the manners and

customs of the Indians and Anglo-Indians 1805 Daniel Johnson. Author of Sketches of Indian field sports 1808 Maria Graham. Married in India to Thomas Graham and later to Sir A.W. Callcott and travelled

in Bengal and southern India. Author of Journal of a residence in India; etc. 1808 William Moorcraft. Veterinary surgeon. Author of Travels in the Himalayan provinces of

Hindustan and the Punjab 1808 Horace Hayman Wilson. Orientalist. Translated Meghaduta; etc. 1809 William Henry Sleeman. Govt. official and Major-General. Superintendent, Suppression of

Thaggi and Dacoity. Author of Rambles and recollections of an Indian official; etc. 1810 Sydney Cotton. Commanded the N.W. Frontier in 1853. Author of Nine years on the N. W.

Frontier, 1854-63 1814 Francis Buchanan-Hamilton. Doctor. Author of Fishes of the Ganges 1815 James Baillie Fraser. Author of Journal of a tour through parts of the snowy range of the

Himalayan mountains 1817 G.Fitzclarence Lt.. in the service of the East India Company. Author of Journal of a route across

India 1818 Moyle Sherer. 34th regt. Author of Sketches of India; etc. 1819 Thomas Williamson. Captain in Bengal Army. Author of Oriental field sports 1822 Reginald Heber. Missionary traveller. Author of Narrative of a Journey. . . 1822 John William Massie. Missionary. Author of Continental India 1822 Fanny Parkes. Accompanied her husband to India; visited India three times. Author of

Wanderings of a pilgrim 1822 G.A.Prinsep. Studied for three months the external commerce and exchanges of Bengal. Author

of Remarks on the external commerce and exchanges of Bengal 1823 Alexander Burnes. Political Officer in the Bombay native infantry. Author of Travels into

Bokhara ) 1823 Philip Meadows Taylor. Nizam's military service. Author of Confessions of a thug; etc. 1825 Alexander Gibson. Botanist. Author of The Bombay flora . 1826 Henry Miners Elliot. Civil servant. Author of The history of India as told by its own historians 1827 Edward C. Archer. Aid-De-Camp to Lord Combermere. Author of Tours in upper India . . . 1827 James Burnes. Physician. Author of Narrative of a visit to Sind 1827 Godfrey Charles Mundy. Aid-De-Camp to Lord Combermere. Author of Pen and pencil

sketches being a journal of a tour in India 1829 Francis George White. 31st regt. Artist. Author of Views in India 1830s John Hobart Caunter. Writer and cadet. Author of Oriental annual 1830 Robert Elliot. Author of Views in the East 1830 Henry Lawrence.. Soldier and distinguished administrator. Author of Adventures of an officer in

the service of Ranjeet Singh; etc. 1831 Thomas Bacon. Bengal Horse Artillery. Author of First impressions and studies from nature in

Hindustan 1832 John William Kaye. Military historian. Author of History of the sepoy war in India; etc. 1832 Godfrey Charles Vigne. Barrister. Author of Travels in Kashmir; etc. 1833 Harriette Ashmore. Author of Narrative of a three months' march in India. . . 1833 Alexander Cunningham. Executive Engineer and well-known scholar. Author of Corpus

inscriptionum Indicarum; etc. 1833 Albert Hervey. Captain, Madras Infantry. Author of Ten years in India

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1835 James Fergusson. Architect and distinguished art historian. Author of The rock-cut temples of India; etc.

1835 Thomas C. Jerdon. Madras Medical Service. Author of Birds of India; etc. 1836 Emily Eden. Novelist and artist. Author of Up the Country; etc. 1836 Henry Edward Fane. Author of Five years in India 1836 Julia Charlotte Maitland. Wife" of Jas Thomas (died at Madras in 1840). Author of The letters

from Madras 1836 John Fredrick Shore. Judge. Author of Notes on Indian affairs 1840s H.A.Leveson. Hyderabad Subsidiary Force. Author of The hunting grounds of the old world 1840 Henry Yule. Linguist. Co-author of Hobson- Jobson 1841 John Butler.Major. Bengal Native Infantry. Author of A sketch of Assam 1842 Thomas Erskine Perry. Judge, Supreme Court of Bombay. Author of A bird's eye view of India;

etc. 1842 T.Acland.Clergyman. Author of A popular account of the manners and customs of India 1842 George Campbell. Administrator. Author of The capital of India; etc. 1842 Robert Gill. Artist and sportsman. Author of The rock-cut temples of lndia; etc. 1844 George Bruce Malleson. Colonel and military writer. Author of The mutiny of the Bengal army;

etc. 1845 James Robert Ballantyne. Linguist. Author of Elements of Hindi and Braj Bakha grammar; etc. 1845 W.W.W. Humbley. Queen 's Royal Lancers; joined Sikh campaign. Author of Journal of a cavalry

officer 1846 Henry George Briggs. Served in the Bombay Secretariat. Author of Cities of Gujarashtra 1846 Richard Francis Burton. Author of Goa, and the blue mountains or six months of sick leave 1847 Edward Braddon. Commissioner, Bhagalpur and Oudh. Author of Thirty years of shikar 1847 Joseph Dalton Hooker. Botanist. Author of Himalayan journals; etc. 1847 Henry George Keene. Civil servant and scholar Author of Fall of the Mughal empire; etc. . c. 1847 Henry Martin Scudder. Missionary. Author of The bazaar book; etc. 1848 Charles Richard Francis. Doctor. Author of Sketches of native life in India 1848 Fredrick Markha Lt. General. Author of Shooting m the Himalayas 1848 Henry Morris. Madras Civil Service. Author of Anglo-Indian worthies; etc. 1849 Andrew.Leith Adams. Naturalist. Author of Wanderings of a naturalist in India 1849 Allan O. Hume. Civil servant, Ornithologist, and founder of the Indian National Congress.

Author of Nests and eggs of Indian birds; etc. 1850 Joseph Fayrer. Surgeon-General. Author of The thanatophidia of India; etc. 1850 Donald Macintyre. Commanded 2nd Gurkhas. Author of Wanderings and wild sport on and

beyond the Himalaya 1850 William Rice. 25 Regt., Bombay. Author of Tiger shooting in India 1852 Francis Egerton. Author of Journal of a winter's tour in India 1852 Matthew Atmore Sherring. Missionary. Author of The Indian church during the rebellion etc. ' 1854 Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith. Orientalist. Translated Ramayana; etc. 1855 James Burgess. Archaeologist. Author of The rock temples of Elephanta; etc. 1855 William Knighton. Professor of History and Logic, Hindu College, Calcutta University. Author

of Private life of an Eastern king; etc. 1855 Alfred C.Lyall. Civil servant and scholar. Author of Verses written in India; etc. 1856 Edwin Arnold. Orientalist and poet. Author of The light of Asia; etc. 1857 George Francklin Atkinson. Bengal Engineers. Author of Curry and rice on 40 plates; or the

ingredients of social life at our station in India; etc. 1859 Clements Robert Markham. Introduced cinchona trees from Peru into India. Author of Memoirs

of the Indian Surveys c. 1860 T.G.Fraser , Lt.-Col.. Bombay Fusiliers. Author of Record of sport and military life in western

India 1860 Lepel Henry Griffin. Civil servant. Author of The Panjab chiefs; etc. 1860 s. Monier -Williams. Distinguished Sanskritist. Author of the major Sanskrit dictionary and Life and

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thought in India; etc. 1860 George Otto Trevelyan. Distinguished civil servant. Author of The competition wallah; etc. 1861 Baden Henry Baden. Civil servant and scholar. Author of Land systems of British India; etc. 1862 James Forsyth. Conservator of Forests. Author of The highlands of central India; etc. 1862 William Wilson Hunter. Scholar, educationalist and civil servant. Editor of Imperial Gazetteer of

India; etc. 1864 Charles E.Gove. Principal, Madras Orphan Male Asylum. Author of The folk-songs of southern

India; etc. 1864 G.P. Sanderson. Officer-in-Charge, Govt. Elephant-catching Establishment, Mysore. Author of

Thirteen years among the wild beasts of India 1865 F.F.Wyman. Author of From Calcutta to the snowy range 1866 Mary Carpenter. Educationalist and reformer. Author of Six months in India 1867 John Faithful Fleet. Epigraphist. Author of Epigraphia Indica; etc. 1868 J.H.Baldwin. Captain, Bengal Staff Corps. Author of The large and small game of Bengal and the

N. W. Provinces of India 1868 Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff. Governor of Madras. Author of Notes of an Indian

journey; etc. 1869 William Lee - War. Civil servant. Author of The citizen of India; etc. 1870 George Robert A. Principal of Rajkumar College, Indore and other institutions. Author- of

Twenty-one days in India. etc. 1870 M.G.Gerard.Br. Brigade Major in the Afghan war. Author of Leaves from the diaries of a soldier

and sportsman. . . 1870 Denzil Charles Ibbetson. Scholar and civil servant. Editor of Gazetteer of the Punjab; etc. 1871 William Crooke.. Scholar, magistrate and collector. Author of The popular religion and folklore

of northern India; etc. 1871 Andrew HL Frase. Civil servant. Author of Among Indian rajahs and ryots 1871 John Garret.di. Director of Public Instruction. Author of A classical dictionary of India 1872 George William Forrest. Director, Govt. of India Records. Author of Cities of India; etc. 1872 T.W.Holderness. Civil servant. Author of Peoples and problems of India 1873 G.A. Grierson.. Linguist. Author of The languages of India 1873 Edward Lear.Ar. Artist. Author of Edward Lear's Indian journal 1873 Robert H.Risley. Scholar and civil servant. Author of Primitive marriage in Bengal; etc. 1875 John David Rees. Madras civil servant. Author of The Muhammadans 1877 A.H.Arden. Linguist. Author of The Panchatantra in Tamil; etc. 1877 Samuel John Thomson. Indian medical service. Author of The Silent India; etc. 1879 J.C.Murray -Aynsley. Visited India twice. Author of Our tour in southern India; etc. 1882 E.F.Burton.Major- Gen.. Madras Staff Corps. Author of Reminiscences of sport in India; etc. 1882 William Foster. Edited The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul 1615-

19 1884 Cecil Bendal. Orientalist. Author of A journey of literary and archaeological research in Nepal

and northern India 1887 Charles Robert Wilson. Bombay Education Department. Author of Inscriptions on tombs and

monuments in Bengal 1891 Christina S. Bremer. Travelled in northern India. Author of A month in a Dandi 1891 Ethel St.Clair Grimwood. Wife of the English political agent in Manipur. Author of My three

years in Manipur; etc. 1892 E.F.Knight. Barrister and journalist. Author of Where three empires meet; etc. 1892 Edward Carpenter. Author of Adams Peak to Elephanta; etc. . c. 1900 Edward F.Elwin. Missionary. Author of India jottings; etc. 1904 Walter Del Mar.. Author of India of Today; etc. 1905 Flora Annie Steel. Married a Bengal civilian. Author of From the five rivers; etc. 1906 William H.Hart. Lived in Calcutta. Author of Everyday life in Bengal . . . . . 1911 John Fortesque. Author of Narrative of a Visit to India

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1912 E.M.Forster. Celebrated novelist. Author of A passage to India; etc. . 1913 G.C.Dyson. Author of From a Pan jab pome- granate grove 1913 Frank Elias. Author of The Gorgeous East; etc . 1922 John McKenzie. Taught at Wilson College, Bombay. Author of Hindu Ethics; etc.

France 1529 Jean and Raoul Parmentier. Visited Maldives. Authors of Journal du voyage de Jean Parmentier . . .

1602 Francois Martinn de Vitre. Visited Maldives. Wrote Description du premier voyage facit aux Indes orientales par les Francois en l'an 1603

1607 Francois Pyrard de Laval. Author of Discours du voyage de Francois aux Indes orientales c. 1615 Jean Mocquet. Author of Voyages en Afrique, Asie Indes, orientales et occidentales 1631 Jean Baptiste Tavernier. Made six voyages to India. Author of Les six voyages de Jean-Baptiste

Tavernier c 1650 La Boullaye Le Gouz. Author of La Boullaye Le Gouz sa vie et ses voyages 1656 Francois Bernier. Physician. Author of Historie de la derniere revolution des etats du gran Mogol 1665 Jean Chardin. Businessman. Wrote on Suleman III of Persia. Author of Journal du voyage due

chevalier Chardin en Perse et Indes orientales 1666 Jean de Thevenot. Author of Voyages de Mr. de Thevenot, contenant la relation de i' Hindostan

des nouveaux Mogols et des autres peuples et pays des Indes 1669 Gabriel Dellon. Author of Nouvelle relation d'un voyage fait aux Indes orientales contenant La

description . . . de Surate, de la cote de Malabar. 1672 Abbe Carre. Author of Voyage des Indes orientales, male de plusieurs histories curieuses c 1690 Francois Martin. Author of Memoirs 1690 Abraham Duquesne. Author of Journal d'un voyage fait aux Indes orientales. . . c 1700 Luillier -Lagaudiers. Author of Voyage du sieur Luillier aux grandes Indes 1752 Jean Baptiste Joseph Gentil. Author of Memoirs sur l'lndoustan: Historie de Radjahs de

l'Indoustan c 1770 Comte Duprat. Author of Voyage du Comte Duprat dans i'lnde, ecrit par lui-meme 1774 P.Sonnerat. Author of Voyage aux Index orientales et a la Chine. . . 1774 et 1781 1789 Louis Marie Joseph O'hier Comte de Grandpre. Author of Voyage dans l'lnde et au Bengalie,fait

dans ies annees 1789 etc 1790 1792 Abbe J.A.Dubois. Author of Moeurs, institutions et ceremonies des peuples de l'lnde; etc. c 1795 Joseph Francois. Author of Voyage au Bengaie . . . 1802 Charles Francois. Author of Voyage aux Indes orientales pendant les annees . . . 1803 Guy de Courson. Author of Une mission aux Indes, 1803-04 . . . 1803 Jules Damian. Author of Prospectus: Un pelerinage dans l'lnde 1828 Victor Jacquemont. Botanist. Author of Correspondance . . . 1830 Cyrille Pierre Theodore Laplace. Author of Voyage autour du monde par les mers de l'lnde et de

Chine 1838 Saint-Hubert Theroulde. Author of Voyage dans l'lnde 1864 Louis Rousselet. Studied art and architecture. Author of India and its princes 1886 James Darmesteter. Orientalist. Author of Lettres sur l'lnde 1897 Sylvain Levi. Sanskritist. Author of Le theatre Indien; etc. 1899 Pierre Loti. Pseudonym of Louis Marie Julien Viaud. Naval officer and novelist. Author of Le

mariage de Loti 19th cent. Michel Perrin. Author of Voyage dans I'Indoustan Victor Fontainer. Author of Voyage dans

l'lnde Francois Devay. Author of Journal d'un voyage dans l'lnde anglaise. Alfred Author of Voyage dans les provinces meridionales de I'lnde . . .

19th cent. Emile Charles Marie Senart. Sanskrit scholar. Author of Kaccyana et la litterature grammaticale du Pali; etc.

19th cent. A.Thenon. Author of A travers l'Inde 19th cent. Louis Jacolliot. Author of Voyage au pays des Brahmes; etc. 19th cent. Henry Bohan. Author of Voyage aux Indes orientales 19th cent. Emile Guimet. Musician. Author of Huit jours aux Indes

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19th cent. Leon Clery. Author of De Paris a Lahore, lettres familieres 19th cent. Prince d 'Orlean et Bragance Louis. Author of A travers l'Hindo-kush Maurice George Rene

Maindron. Author of Dans l'Inde du Sud 1931 Henri Michaux. Poet. Author of Un barbare en Asie 1939 Jules Monchanin. Catholic priest. Author of Del'esthetique a la mystique

Georgia A.D. 13th cent Minhaj -al - Siraj Jurjani. Poet. Wrote an historical account, Tabaqat-i-Nasiri 1795 Rafail Danibegov. Author of A journey to India

Germany 1197 Henrich von Morungen. Minnesinger. 1498 Martin Behaim and Johannes Muller. accompanied Vasco da Gama. 1505 Hans Mayr And Balthasar Sprenger. accompanied Dom Francisco d' Almeida 1607 Johann Verken. Soldier in Dutch service. 1638 Albrecht von Mandelslo. Author of Albrechts von Mandellso morgenlandische reise-

beschreibung c.1670 Martin Wintergeist. His account of India was published in Reisebeschreibungen . . . , edited by

S.P. L'Nhonore Naber (The Hague, 1930-32) 1675 Christoph Schweitzer . Author of Reise nach Java und Ceylon, edited by L'Nhonore Naber 1682 Bartholomaus Ziegenbalg. Lutheran theologian Author of Genealogie der Malabarishen Gotter

etc. c 1700 Johann Ernst Hanxleden. Catholic missionary Malayalam and Sanskrit scholar. Author

Puthenpana; or, the life of Christ; etc. c 1757 Walter Balthasar Reinhardt. Served Shah Alam II in 1772 civil war; husband of Begum Samru c. 1770 Johann Philipp Fabricius and Christian Breithaupt. Co-authors of A Malabar and English

dictionary 1776 Johann Peter Rottler. Produced a report on botanical researches on his journey from Tranquebar

to Madras. Also, author of Tamil-English dictionary; etc. c 1788 Johann Gottfried Haensel. Missionary in Nicobar Author of Letters on the Nicobar Islands 1832 Joseph Wolff. Missionary. Author of Travels adventures of Dr. Wolff" 1842 Herman Beythan. Tamil scholar. Author of Praktische grammatik der Tamil sprache 1842 J.C.F.Heyer. Telugu scholar. Author of religious songs in Telugu c 1850 Hermann Gundert. Malayalam scholar. Author Grammar of the Malayalam language; etc. 1859 Martin H.Haug. Orientali Author of The Aitareya Brahmana; etc. 1863 G.Buehler. German scholar. Author of paleography 1866 William Schpich. Author of A manual of forestry; etc. 1870 Augusts Rudolf Frederic Hoernle. Celebrated linguist. Author of Comparative grammar the

North Indian languages 1873 Herman Georg Jacobi. Celebrated Sanskritist..Author of Das Ramayana; etc. 1882 Julius E.Jolly. Physicist and celebrated philologist. Translated into English the e Institutes of

Narada; etc. 1884 Eugen Hultzsch. celebrated philologist. Author of Prolegomena zu Vasantaraja sakuna; etc. 1892 Paul Deussen. Orientalist. Author of Das system des Vedanta; etc. 1894 F. Kittel. Kannada scholar. Author of Kannada English dictionary 1835-36 Charles Hugel. German Aristocrat Travelled in Panjab & Kashmir

Greece 326 b.c. Nearchus. Author of The voyage of Nearchus from the Indus to the Euphrates, collected from e from original journal preserved by Arrian

302 b.c. Megasthenese. Ambassador. Author of Indica 3rd cent. b.c. Dionusis Envoy. Dionusis Envoy A.D. 535-547 Cosmas Indicopleustes. Merchant. Author of Topographia Christiana

Holland 1583 Jan Huygen van Linchooten. Author of Journael van de derthhien jarighe, Reise .. na Oost Indien

1601 I.Van Speilberghen. Author of 't historiael journael vander Stadt Camp -Vere onaer d'Oost Indien

1620 Franciso Pelsaert. Junior merchant. Author of a journal 1651 Abraham Rojerius. Author of De open-deure tot het verborgen heydendom

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c. 1660 Philippus Baldaeus. Author of Naauwkerige beschryvinge van Malabar en Choromandel, der zelver aangrenzende ryken en het machtige eyland Ceylon

c. 1680 Daniel Havart.. Author of open Ondergang van Coromandel c. 1720 Fracois Valentyn. Author of Oud en nieuw Oost-Indien. 1766 J.Haafner. Author of Reize in eenen Palanguin: of lotgevallen en herkwaardige a antieekingen

opeene reige langs de kusten Orixa en Choromandel 1640 John Nieuhoff. Traveler to the West and East Indies

Hungary 1829 J.M.Honigberger. Author of Thirty-five years in the East c. 1830 Agostan Schoefft. Painter. Made portraits of Ranjit Singh, Sher Singh, etc. 1847 Edward Rehatsek. Latin scholar and mathematician. Contributed to Calcutta Review and

published works on Islam, Christianity; etc 1854 Theodore Duka.. Author of Life and works of Alexander Csome de Koras 1864 Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner. Principal, Govt. College. Lahore. Author of several works. Edited

Asiatic Quarterly Review 1888 Mark Aurel Stein. Archaeologist. Principal of the Oriental College and Registrar of Punjab

University, Lahore. Produced many works and catalogues including Memoirs of the ancient geography of Kashmir

c. 1920 Alexender Csoma de Koras. Author of Dictionary and a grammar of Tibetan language 1926 Ervin Baktay. Author of lndiai regek es mondak 1929 Ferenc Zajti. Painter. Author of Kapcsolataink lndiaval 1929 Julius Germanus. Author of Islamic studies 1933 Rozsa Hajnoczy. Wife of Charles Fabri. Author of Bengali tuz (Bengali fire) 1933 Charles Fabri.. Author of Indian flamingo

Iran 10th Cent. Abu Ishaq Ibrahim bin Muhammad Istakhari . Author of Kitab-al-aqalim 13th. Cent. Shaikh Sadi. Poet. Author of Bustan 14th. Cent. Hafiz (of Shira). Poet. d. 1389. Wrote a Dewan 1432 Shaikh Azuri. Poet. Author of Jawahir-ul-Asrar. etc. 16th. Cent. Mir Sayyad Ali Tabrizi. Painter; accompanied Humayun to India 16th. Cent. Khwaja Abd-us-Samad Shirazi. Painter; accompanied Humayun to India 16th. Cent. Shahpur khorasani. Painter. 16th. Cent. Urfi (of Shiraz). Poet d. 1590 c. 1560 Muhammad Kasim Faristha. Historian. Author of Tarikhi-i-Firishta 1577 Asaf Khan. also called Mirza Jafar Beg. Poet 17th. Cent. Muhammad Hussain Naziri. Poet. d. 1612 17th. Cent. Mulla Zuhuri. Poet. Works include Mina Bazar; Saqi-nama c. 1610 Abu Talib 'Kalim'. Poet. Author of Zafar-nama-i-Shah Jahan 1649 Mirza Muhammad Muqim Fauji (of Shiraz). Poet, but was also a soldier in Bengal 1734 Sheikh Muhammad Ali Hazim. Author of Tazkaratul-Ahwal 1809 Mirza Abul - Hasa Khan. Ambassador. Author of Hirat-Nama

Ireland 1787 George Thomas.. Commanded the army of Begum Samru 1802 George Annesley Valentia. Succeeded to the Irish peerage as second Earl of Mountnorres.

Author of Voyages and travels in India, the Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt from 1802 to 1806 Italy 1295 Marco Polo. Author of Il Milione. Originally written in French, and lost. Later reconstructed

from various manuscripts ---copied from the original. Translated into Latin, Italian, English, etc 1321 Odorico da Pordenone. Missionary. Author of 1tineranus orientalis c. 1419 Nicolo dei Conti. Author of India recognita forming Book IV of De varietate fortunae by Poggio

Bracciolini c. 1499 Gerolamo di Santo Stefano. His account is contained in a letter published in Viaggi in Persia

India e Giava di Nicolo De Conti, Girolamo Adorno e Girolamo da Santo Stefano, ed. M. Longhena

1503 Giovanni da Empoli. A Florentine merchant. Author of Letters di G. da Empoli. ed. A. Bausani 1505 Ludovico de Varthema. Author of Itinerario 1515 Andrea Corsali. Wrote Ietters

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1565 Cesare Federici. An acccount of his travels was written by Fra Barto Lomeo Dionigi 1578 Rodolfo Acquaviva. Jesuit in the court of Wrote letters, published in J. Wicki's Monumenta

missionum, vols 28-30; Documenta Indica 11, 1577-80, Rome 1970); (vol. 12, 1Rome, 1972) 1579 Gasparo Balbi. Author of Viaggi di C. Federici e G: Balbi all Orientali ed. O. Pinto 1582 Fillippo Sassetti. Wrote letters 1584 Jacobo Fenicio. Missionary. Author of Livro primerio da Seita dos Indios orientalis 1599 Francesco Carletti. Florentine merchant. of Ragionamenti 1605 Roberto de Nobili. Missionary. His works include Apologia 1622 Pietro Della Valle. Author of De'Viaggi di Della Valle il Pellegrino 1656 Nicolo Manucci. Author of S do Mogor 1656 Giuseppe di S. Maria. A missionary. Author of Prima speditione all Indie orientali; etc. 1656 Vincenzo Maria di S. Caterina da Siena. Missionary. Author of the ll viaggio all' Indie orientali c. 1693 Giovanni Francesco Gemilli Careri. Author of Giro del mondo 1710 Constantius Beschi. Jesuit, Author of books including one against the Lutherans 1756 Marco della Tomba. Missionary. His account is given Gli Scritti del Pandre Marco Della Tomba

by Angelo de Gubernatis 1776 Paolino di S. Bartolomeo. Missionary. Author of Viaggio alle Indie orientali 1781 Eustachio Delfini. Captain, Author of Raggualic della spedizione della flotta francese allindie

orientali, seguita negli anni 1781-1782-1783 sotto la condotta del Generale De Suffren 1792 Lazzaro Papi. Missionary. Author of Storia dell' Indostan 1810 Angelo de Gubernatis. Sanskrit scholar. Founded Rivista Orientale, and wrote Piccola

enciclopedia Indiana; etc. 1712-1713 Desideri Ippolito. Jesuit Missionary. Travel to Tibet via Ladakh

Korea c. A.D. 8th Cent.

Hye -Ch 'o. Author of Wang O chun chuk guk chun (My visit to five regions of India)

Poland c. 1490 Gasper da Gama. Worked as Port Manager c. 1596 Krzysztof Pawlowskki. Author of Les Indes Portugaises a la fin du XVlme siecle c. 1610 Pawel Palczewksi. Published his accounts in 1610 1625 Andrzej Rudomina. A Jesuit, whose departure for India was commemorated by the Polish poet

Maciej Sarbiewski in an ode 1736 Mikolaj Szostak. Missionary 18th Cent. Maksymiliam Wiklinki. Recorded everyday life in Pondicherry and Calcutta in his diary 1814 Rhenius. A missionary from Gradudenz. Author of The essence of the true Veda 1830 Count Wladyslaw Malachowski. His account is available in MS form in the University of Warsaw:

registered under no. 9708 Portugal 1488 Pedro de Covilha. Adventurer. Reached Cannonore, disguised as an Arab

1498 Vasco Da Gama. Renowned navigator. Author of Navigatione di V. di Gaman . . . etc. 1500 Pedro Alvares Cabral. Author of Nauigation del Capitano Pedro Aluares scrina per vn pilotto

portoghese 1503 Afonso de Albuquergue. Author of Commentarios de Afonso Dalboquerque . . . 1512 Thome Pires. Author of Suma oriental 1520 Domingo Paes. Wrote on Vijayanagar. Account published in A forgotten empire by Sewell 1528 Fernao Lopez de Castanheda. Wrote Historiaa do descobrimento e conquesto da India Polos

Portuguese 1535 Fernao Nuniz. A horse dealer wrote on vijayanagar. Account published in A forgotten by Sewell. 1541/42 Francis Xavier.. Renowned Jesuit missionary and canonize a saint. Author of Lettres de S.

Francois Xavier 1553 Camoens.Epic. Epic poet. Composed most of Lusiads in India c. 1559 Diogo do Couto. Keeper of Goa Records. Author of Da Asia (1602-45): 12 Vols. 1560 Edoardo Barbosa. Jesuit missionary 1573 Antonio Cabral.. Envoy of the Portuguese Viceroy at Goa to Akbars court 1580 Antonio Monserrate. Jesuit spent several years in Akbar's court. Author of Mongolicae legationis

commentarius; etc.

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1584 Don Duart de Me. Viceroy. Author of Chronica do Condo D Duarte de Menezes 1590 Pedro Teixerie.. A soldier. Author of relaciones .. deel origen descendencia y succession de los

reyes de Persia .. dende la india Oriental hasta Italia ortierra. 1595 Jerome Xavier. Jesuit Father. Wrote letters from Akbars courte. 1595 Emanuel Pinheiro. Colleague of Jerome Xavier 1604 Sebastian Manrique. Member of Augustinian order. Wrote Itinerario in Spanish. c. 1616 Manual Barradas. Jesuit Missionary. Wrote on Vijayanagar . Author of Discricao da cidade de

Columbo etc. 1631 Antonio Bocarro. Histonan and keeper of Goa Records. Author of Decada.. etc.

Vasco da Gama.. Russia 1470 Athanasius Nikitin. Merchant traveler. Author of Khodzenie za tri morya

c. 1624 Fedot Afanaanaslyev Kotov. Author of a journey of Persia, from Persia to the land of Turkey and to India

1698 S.Malenkov. Merchant traveller c. 1774 Filip Yefremov. Author of The travels 1785 Herasim Lebedeff. Indologist. Author of A grammar of the pure and mixed East Indian dialects 1855 Helena Petrovitch Blavatsky. Theosophist 1880 Ivan Pavlovitch Minayeff. Indologist. Author of Dnevniki puteshestivi v Indiu i Birmu, 1880,

1885-1886; etc. Scandinavia 1863 Lars Olsen Skrefsrud. Missionary from Faaberg. Author of Santali grammar; etc.

1894 Theo Sorensen and Edvard Amundsen. Studied Tibetan religion and customs in India Scotland 1763 John Stewart. Wrote Travels to discover the source of moral motion; etc.

1789 James Moffat. Portrait artist 1823 John Stevenson. Missionary. Founded Bombay Gazette and wrote Principles of Mahratti

grammar; etc. 1829 John Wilson. Missionary and orientalist. Founded Oriental Christian Spectator. Wrote a History

of the suppression of infanticide in western India 1829 Alexender Duff. Missionary. Edited Calcutta Review and wrote India and Indian missions 1839 Thomas Smith. Missionary. Wrote Modern missions and culture; etc. 1859 John Watson McCrindle. Author of Ancient India as described by Ktesias the Knidian; etc. c. 1880 Edward Hamilton Aitkin. Missionary. Author of Tribes on my frontier; etc.

Switzerland 1803 De Caselli. Army officer from Basle. Specialized in portrait painting Tibet A.D. 7th Cent. Thomani Sambhota. A scholar

2nd decade . 8th. Cent. Salnang. A Scholar 8/9th Cent. Namnang. A Scholar 11th. Cent. Rinchhen Sangpo. A monk 11th. Cent. Legs pahi S'erab. A monk 11th. Cent. Nag-Tcho. A scholar 11th. Cent. Brogmi. A Scholar. Translated Hevajra tantra into Tibetan

Turkey 1535 Bairam Khan. Accompanied.Hurnayun from Persia . A distinguished officer the Mughal Court. Author of a Diwan

1554 Sidi Ali Reis. Admiral in the navy. Author of Mirat ul memalik Turkmenia c. 1850 Makhtum Kuli Fragi. Poet Uzbekistan A.D. 13th. Cent. Muhammad ' Anji. Author of Lubab-al-albab

1442 Kama1uddin Abdur Razzaq Samargandi. Remained in Vijayanagar. Author of Malta-us-Sadain

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