Read the following excerpt carefully and answer the questions that fol

1.	Read the following excerpt carefully and answer the questions that follow. The bird leaves its nest This is an excerpt from the Rihla: My departure from Tangier, my birthplace, took place on Thursday… I set out alone, having neither fellow traveller… nor caravan whose party I might join, but swayed by an overmastering impulse within me and a desire long-cherished in my bosom to visit these illustrious sanctuaries. So I braced my resolution to quit all my dear ones, female and male, and forsook my home as birds forsake their nests… My age at that time was twenty-two years. Ibn Battuta returned home in 1354, about 30 years after he had set out. 1. Explain ‘Rihla’. 2. Why did he find difficult to travel in India? Mention two reasons. 3. What did Ibn-Battuta say about Indian towns?
Answer» 1.(a) ‘Rihla’ is a famous book of the accounts of the travel of Ibn Battuta. (b) It is in arabic and provides us a detailed description about the social and cultural life of India in 14th century. 2.(a) Routes were unsecure. (b) There was always a fear of robbers and dacoits on the way. 3.(a) Indian towns are prosperous. (b) They are densely populated. (c) These towns are the centres of both social and cultural activities.

Read the following excerpt carefully and answer the questions that follow. The bird leaves its nest This is an excerpt from the Rihla: My departure from Tangier, my birthplace, took place on Thursday… I set out alone, having neither fellow traveller… nor caravan whose party I might join, but swayed by an overmastering impulse within me and a desire long-cherished in my bosom to visit these illustrious sanctuaries. So I braced my resolution to quit all my dear ones, female and male, and forsook my home as birds forsake their nests… My age at that time was twenty-two years. Ibn Battuta returned home in 1354, about 30 years after he had set out. 1. Explain ‘Rihla’. 2. Why did he find difficult to travel in India? Mention two reasons. 3. What did Ibn-Battuta say about Indian towns?

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1.(a) ‘Rihla’ is a famous book of the accounts of the travel of Ibn Battuta.

(b) It is in arabic and provides us a detailed description about the social and cultural life of India in 14th century.

2.(a) Routes were unsecure.

(b) There was always a fear of robbers and dacoits on the way.

3.(a) Indian towns are prosperous.

(b) They are densely populated.