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Tavernier's diamond roads

Era: Vijayanagara & the Qutb Shahis

Tavernier's diamond roadsGodavariKrishnaGolconda–Kollur–MasulipatamGolconda–Ramallakota1652: Masulipatam–Madras–Gandikota1652: Gandikota–GolcondaGolcondaGolcondaMachilipatnamMachilipatnamKondaviduKondaviduAddankiAddankiKollur diamond mineRamallakota diamond mineKurnoolGandikota, Mir Jumla's camp (1652)BezwadaMadrasN0100 km
  • Unified Andhra Pradesh (pre-2014)
  • Present-day state borders, for orientation
  • Route

The routes of the French jeweller Jean-Baptiste Tavernier between Golconda, the diamond mines at Kollur and Ramallakota, the port of Masulipatam and Mir Jumla's camp at Gandikota in 1652, after the map in V. Ball's translation of 1889. The lines join the stages Ball identified and are approximate.

Base map: Natural Earth (opens in a new tab) (public domain). Redrawn from: A Map of India showing Tavernier's Routes and the Sites of the Diamond Mines mentioned by him (opens in a new tab), V. Ball (ed.), 1889 (Public domain). Attributions

Sources

  1. Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (tr. V. Ball), Travels in India, Vol. I (opens in a new tab), Macmillan & Co., London, 1889, pp. 172–175, 259–284, 294–300; map, PDF p. 499. [Public domain]
  2. Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (tr. V. Ball), Travels in India, Vol. II (opens in a new tab), Macmillan & Co., London, 1889, pp. 53–55, 72–75, 93–94. [Public domain]