Tavernier's 17th-Century Corroboration of Bengal's Abundance
Echoing Ibn Battuta's fourteenth-century observations, French diamond merchant Jean Baptiste Tavernier also noted Bengal's remarkable prosperity during his travels in the seventeenth century. His account provides specific evidence of this abundance, stating that even the smallest villages had plentiful supplies of rice, flour, butter, milk, beans, vegetables, sugar, and sweetmeats. This corroboration from three centuries later suggests a sustained period of prosperity in the region.
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