Question

Peter Mundy, ___ trader who came to India in the 17th century.
A) An English
B) A French
C)A Portuguese
D) A Dutch

Answer 1

Hint: Peter Mundy was a seventeenth-century commerce trader, explorer, and writer who lived from 1597 until 1667. He tasted Chaa (tea) in China and travelled extensively in Asia, Russia, and Europe, as chronicled in his Itinerarium Mundi ('Itinerary of the World')

Complete answer:
When Peter Mundy arrived in India in the early 17th century, he encountered a tanda of Banjaras with 14,000 cattle. They all had wheat and rice with them, and they could even bring their wives and children. They were merchants who used to buy grain where it was cheap and sell it to locations where it wasn't, and then buy items that might be sold profitably from there.

Peter Mundy left Blackwall on March 6, 1628, for Surat, India, where he arrived on September 30, 1628.
He arrived at Agra in November 1630 and stayed there until 17 December 1631, when he moved to Puttana on the Bengal border. He returned to Agra and Surat, leaving Surat in February 1634 and arriving off the coast of Dover on September 9, 1634. The Harleian MS. 2286, as well as the Addit. MSS. 19278–80, contains this chapter of his travels.

Peter Mundy was an English trader who came to India during the early seventeenth century. He has described the Banjaras in his writings. Thus, Peter Mundy, an English trader who came to India in the 17th century.

Therefore the correct answer is option ‘A’.

Note: Mundy, Peter (1630-34 AD), was an Italian visitor to the Mughal Empire during Shahjahan's reign, and he provides vital information regarding the Mughal Empire's common people's living standards. Peter Mundy paid a visit to the tomb, but Shah Jahan refused to let him into the room where Akbar was buried.