: Centuries before the Europeans landed, Gujarat’s Cambay was a melting pot of trade and culture #IndiaNEWS Sometime in the year 1342, the Moroccan traveller Ibn Batutah made his way from Delhi to

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Centuries before the Europeans landed, Gujarat’s Cambay was a melting pot of trade and culture #IndiaNEWS
Sometime in the year 1342, the Moroccan traveller Ibn Batutah made his way from Delhi to Cambay, a busy port on India’s western coast. Cambay’s governor – a man named Muqbil – welcomed him with a banquet at his mansion. The reception, according to Ibn Batutah, was a jovial affair.In addition to the famed traveller from the Moroccan city of Tangiers, the party included high-profile men like a local Muslim judge, or qadi, and a nobleman, or sharif, from Baghdad. The host, Muqbil, was from Telangana in southern India and his deputy, says Ibn Batutah, was a wealthy and erudite, and somewhat homesick, man from Isfahan.That Ibn Batutah met such a wide mix of people in a town that is barely known today outside Gujarat should not surprise us. In the 14th century, Cambay – Kinbaya or Kanbaya in Arabic, or Khambhat as Gujarati-speaking locals would have called it – was among many vibrant trading cities on the Indian Ocean’s shores.From the tenth to the 16th centuries, Cambay and other Asian and African cities like it – Calicut, Hormuz, Kilwa, Mogadishu, Aden, Jeddah, Samudera Pasai, Malacca and Guangzhou – were some of the world’s booming commercial centres: places where numerous people, ideas, and...Read more

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