Ralph Fitch, who has left an eyewitness account of the social
life and economic condition of the Mughal India, was a European traveller and
trader. He was one of the first Englishmen to visit India. During the course of
his journey which he undertook in a ship named Tiger he was arrested at Hormuz
from where he was taken to Goa then under the control of the Portuguese.
After
being released on bail he left Goa and in 1585 he reached the Mughal court of Akbat at
Fatehpur Sikri, the new capital built by the emperor
near Agra.
From
Fatehpur Sikri, Fitch proceeded to the
eastern part of India including Bengal.
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