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Person Duarte Barbosa
Asked 3 times across 2 UPSC exams over 2 years (2024–2026), peaking in 2025.
Key insights
- Most tested in GEO — 2 of 3 PYQs
- Most asked in 2025
- Recurs across 3 years (2024–2026)
How it travelled across exams
First appearance in each exam — the same idea, reframed.
GEO 2024 → CAPF 2025
How the concept evolved
Rising — more than half its appearances (3 of 3) are since 2016.
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Sample questions
You've seen the pattern — here are a few of the actual PYQs.
GEO2026
Consider the following pairs : Traveller : Century/Centuries
- Marco Polo : Tenth and eleventh centuries
- Al-Biruni : Thirteenth century
- Duarte Barbosa : Sixteenth century
How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?
- A None
- B One
- C Two
- D All three
Answer key not yet available (pending official release)
History › Medieval India
CAPF2025
Who among the following travellers reported the use of seed drill on the Karnataka coast which is considered to be the earliest reference of the presence of the device in India?
- A Duarte Barbosa
- B Abdur Razzaq
- C Afanasy Nikitin
- D Niccolo Conti
Answer key not yet available (pending official release)
History › Medieval India
GEO2024
Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the code given below the Lists : List I (Traveller) P. Seydi Ali Reis Q. Ibn Battuta R. Peter Mundy S. Duarte Barbosa List II (Country)
- Morocco
- Turkey
- Portugal
- England Code
- A P-2 Q-1 R-4 S-3 ✓
- B P-3 Q-4 R-1 S-2
- C P-3 Q-1 R-4 S-2
- D P-2 Q-4 R-1 S-3
✓ Correct answer: (A)
History › Medieval India
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