Personalities
Saints, scholars, poets, scientists, reformers, freedom fighters, travellers and commanders who shaped the history of Bharat. Rulers are listed on each polity's page.
4th century BCE · 1
4th century CE · 1
7th century CE · 2
Xuanzang
Traveller / envoy · c. 602 CE – c. 664 CE
Chinese pilgrim who studied at Nalanda and visited Harsha's court
Yijing (I-tsing)
Traveller / envoy · 635 CE – 713 CE
Chinese monk who studied at Nalanda in the 670s-680s
13th century CE · 1
14th century CE · 1
15th century CE · 4
Nicolò de' Conti
Traveller / envoy · 1395 – 1469
Venetian merchant who visited Vijayanagara around 1420
Abdur Razzaq
Traveller / envoy · 1413 – 1482
Persian envoy who described Vijayanagara under Deva Raya II
Afanasy Nikitin
Traveller / envoy · died c. 1475
Russian merchant who described the Bahmani kingdom
Vasco da Gama
Traveller / envoy · c. 1460 – c. 1524
Portuguese navigator who reached Calicut in 1498
16th century CE · 1
17th century CE · 4
Sir Thomas Roe
Traveller / envoy · 1581 – 1644
English ambassador to the court of Jahangir
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier
Traveller / envoy · 1605 – 1689
French gem merchant who described the diamonds of Golconda
François Bernier
Traveller / envoy · 1620 – 1688
French physician who wrote Travels in the Mogul Empire
Niccolao Manucci
Traveller / envoy · c. 1638 – c. 1717
Venetian adventurer who wrote the Storia do Mogor