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How are the accounts of Francois Bernier different from the accounts of earlier travellers?

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(i) Francois Bernier belonged to France. He was a doctor, political philosopher and historians. He visited India during the Mughal empire.
(ii) He travelled to different parts and described what he observed in India as a bleak situation with comparison to development in Europe.
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