Which one of the following foreign travellers elaborately discussed about diamonds and diamond mines of India?

The Correct Answer is Option 2 i.e Jean - Baptiste Tavernier. 

Key Points

• Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605–1689) was a renowned 17th-century French gem merchant and traveller.
• Tavernier, a private individual and merchant travelling at his own expense, covered, by his own account, 60,000 leagues in making six voyages to Persia and India between the years 1630 and 1668.
• Tavernier is best known for his 1666 discovery or purchase of the 116-carat Tavernier Blue diamond.
• He elaborately discussed the diamonds and diamond mines of India.
• Jean De Thevenot (1626): One of the first French travellers, graphically describes the cultivation of indigo and the extent of its cultivation in his book Remonstrantie.
• Frenchman, Francois Bernier (1656– 58): His book Travels in the Mughal Empire mentioned the life of the peasantry, their poor conditions, towns, industries, life in the countryside and the urban culture and, above all, the major manufactures of India.
• Abbe Carre also a Frenchman, visited Mughal India between 1672 and 1674 and recorded his information in The travels of Abbe Carre in India and the Near East.
  • He wrote about the port towns and the role of the newly formed French East India Company.