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Compare and contrast the perspectives from which Ibn Battuta and Bernier wrote their accounts of their travels in India.

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*(a) Ibn Battuta' perspectives-**

  • Narrative style.
  • Highlighted anything that was unfamiliar and different.

*(b) Bernier' Perspective -**

  • He belonged to a different intellectual tradition.
  • He was concerned with comparing and contrasting things in India with Europe.
  • He emphasized the superiority of Europe.
  • He perceived differences hierarchically and shows India inferior to the western world.
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