AIR 14 · CSE 2025 · GS1 · 28 pages

Surabhi Yadav: GS1 answer copy

2 answers by Surabhi Yadav, as written in the test. Each question opens a page with how other toppers answered it.

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Question 3 · 62 words written

Abdur Razzaq Samarqandi: describe city of Vijaynagar and fortification in seven concentric circles.

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However, they have limitations.

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(1) Not fully aware of the culture, presents an elite view.

(2) Biasness - writing for their patrons, compared with their culture (eg) Abdur with Persian culture.

(3) Recorded only those events they found strange or different

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(eg) Sati records

Thus, travellers provide great insight but they must be studied with possible biasness & inherent limitations by historians