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Traditions and Encounters Book Cover
Traditions and Encounters, 2/e
Jerry H. Bentley, University of Hawai'i
Herbert F. Ziegler, University of Hawai'i
INDIA AND THE INDIAN OCEAN BASIN

Internet Activities: Book of the Wonders of India

http://www.majbill.vt.edu/history/acuffel/Buzurg.htm



1

What does this story of merchants traveling to foreign lands tell us about Indian society of this era? Why does it interest scholars to learn that a society enjoys stories of other cultures?
2

What are the religious implications of this story? Does it tell us anything about the meeting of Hindu and Islamic traditions in India? If so, what?








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