UPSC History Optional · Paper I · 2011 · Q5(c) · 20 marks
What is your assessment of Ibn Batutah's Rehla as an important source of Indian history.
- Chapter
- The Fourteenth Century
- Topic
- Sources: Barani and Ibn Battuta
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