{"id":2564,"date":"2025-05-04T19:11:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T13:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=2564"},"modified":"2025-05-04T19:11:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T13:41:43","slug":"q-which-one-of-the-following-foreign-travellers-elaborately-discussed-about-diamonds-and-diamond-mines-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-which-one-of-the-following-foreign-travellers-elaborately-discussed-about-diamonds-and-diamond-mines-of-india","title":{"rendered":"Q. Which one of the following foreign travellers elaborately discussed about diamonds and diamond mines of India?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list mcq\">\n<li>Francois Bernier<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jean-Baptiste Tavernier<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jean de Thevenot<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Abbe Barthelemy Carre<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Answer: (b) Jean-Baptiste Tavernier<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"notes\">Notes:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Jean-Baptiste Tavernier was a&nbsp;<strong>French<\/strong>&nbsp;gem (particularly diamond) trader and traveller in the&nbsp;<strong>17th century.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He made six travels to&nbsp;<strong>Persia and India<\/strong>&nbsp;throughout his lifetime.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Between 1638 and 1643 AD, during his second voyage, he came to India and travelled as far as&nbsp;<strong>Agra<\/strong>&nbsp;before arriving in the&nbsp;<strong>Kingdom of Golconda.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He also paid a visit to the&nbsp;<strong>Shahjahan\u2019s court&nbsp;<\/strong>and went on his first excursion to the diamond mines.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tavernier wrote&nbsp;<strong>Les Six Voyages de Jean-Baptiste Tavernier in 1675&nbsp;<\/strong>at the behest of his patron<strong>&nbsp;Louis XIV (<\/strong>Six Voyages, 1676).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In his book, he goes into great&nbsp;<strong>detail on diamonds and Indian diamond mines<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He is famous for discovering and purchasing the&nbsp;<strong>Blue Diamond,&nbsp;<\/strong>which he later sold to Louis XIV of France.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer: (b) Jean-Baptiste Tavernier Notes:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[41],"years":[55],"class_list":["post-2564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc","category-prelims","tag-medieval-history","years-55"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"},{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"}],"post_tag":[{"value":41,"label":"Medieval History"}],"years":[{"value":55,"label":"2018"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0},{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":41,"name":"Medieval History","slug":"medieval-history","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":41,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":38,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2564"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=2564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}