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Francois Bernier, a French physician, political philosopher, traveler, and historian, lived in India for 12 years. He was associated with the Mughal Court as a personal physician of Dara Shikoh (eldest son of emperor Shah Jahan) and later as a scientist with Danishmand Khan (Nole at Mughal Court).
François Bernier (25 September 1620 – 22 September 1688) was a French physician and traveller. He was born in Joué-Etiau in Anjou. He stayed (14 October 1658 – 20 February 1670) for around 12 years in India.
Jul 31, 2023 · Learn about Francois Bernier, a French physician, political philosopher, traveler, and historian who lived in India for 12 years and associated with the Mughal Court. Useful for candidates preparing for the IAS Exam.
Oct 19, 2007 · Bernier, François, 1620-1688; Constable, Archibald. Publication date. 1916. Topics. Mogul Empire, India -- Description and travel, India -- History. Publisher. Oxford : University Press. Collection. robarts; toronto. Contributor. Robarts - University of Toronto. Language. English. Item Size. 820015340. 26. Addeddate. 2007-10-19 18:38:37.
Jul 14, 2021 · ‘The heat is so intense in Hindoustan, that no one, not even the King, wears stockings,’ writes Frenchman François Bernier (1625–88) in a letter to a friend back home in the 1660s.
French physician François Bernier’s seventeenth century travelogue has been widely studied as an eyewitness account of Mughal India. This dissertation connects Bernier’s French text to the construction of later British imperial rhetoric about South Asia.
Quick Reference. (1625–88), French author, physician, and traveller whose vivid descriptions of what he saw in India and Kashmir in the 17th century contain precious early accounts of gardens. They were published ...
May 19, 2011 · François Bernier (1625?-1688) trained as a physician at Montpellier and left France for Syria in 1654, travelling to Egypt and finally to India ('Hindustan'), where he...
Travels in the Mogul Empire is the first authoritative translation into English of François Bernier's Histoire de la dernière révolution des états du Grand Mogol, published in...
After receiving his M.D. degree, Francois Bernier first went to Paris, then to the Near East. As early as i656, he was on his way to Egypt, and the great experience of his life had begun. After suffering from an attack of plague in Rosetta and spend-ing a whole year in Cairo, he sailed for Moka. He wished to visit Abyssinia, but he
