Read the passage given below 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 up 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. What did Battuta say about Indian towns?

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1.	Read the passage given below 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 up 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. What did Battuta say about Indian towns?
Answer» Solution :According to him: (a) INDIAN TOWNS were prosperous. (b) They were densely populated. (C) These towns were the centres of both social and CULTURAL ACTIVITIES.