UPSC CDS GS History Questions Part 2

Marco Polo’s trip to India (1271 A.D.) earned much fame in Europe on account of his commercial, religious and social conditions in the East. Marco Polo praised the merchants of Gujarat as being the best and the most truthful in the world. He said that the country produced the finest muslin and other costly fabrics. As regards the social life of the people, he refers to the polygamy of the kings, the prevalence of Sati, the popular belief in omens and astrology