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Author Du Jarric, Pierre, 1566-1617.

Title Akbar and the Jesuits : an account of the Jesuit missions to the court of Akbar / Pierre du Jarric ; [translated with introduction and notes by C.H. Payne].

Publication Info. London : RoutledgeCurzon, 2005.

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Description 1 online resource (155 pages) : illustrations.
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Physical Medium polychrome
Series The Broadway travellers ; 2
Broadway travellers ; 2.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents BOOK COVER; TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; PLATE 1; PREFACE; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATTONS; LIST OF PRINCIPAL AUTHORITIES CONSULTED; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER I AKBAR, THE GREAT MOGUL; CHAPTER II THE FIRST MISSION TO MOGOR; CHAPTER III 'WHAT IS TRUTH?'; CHAPTER IV FATHER RUDOLF AQUAVIVA; CHAPTER V THE SECOND MISSION; CHAPTER VI DISPATCH OF THE THIRD MISSION; CHAPTER VII THE FATHERS AT COURT; CHAPTER VIII ON TOUR WITH THE KING; CHAPTER IX AT THE SEAT OF WAR; CHAPTER X AN EMBASSY TO GOA; CHAPTER XI FATHER PIGNEIRO AT LAHORE, 1600-1; CHAPTER XII THE CONFIDENCE TRICK
CHAPTER XIII SOME NOTABLE CONVERSIONSCHAPTER XIV A BRAVE CHAMPION; CHAPTER XV AN IMPERIAL FARMAN; CHAPTER XVI A MIRACULOUS PICTURE; CHAPTER XVII EVENTS OF THE YEAR 1602; CHAPTER XVIII PRINCE SALIM; CHAPTER XIX PERSECUTION OF THE FATHERS; CHAPTER XX THE DEATH OF AKBAR; NOTES; INDEX
Summary First published in 1926.'These documents are full of intimate interest' Times Literary Supplement'A serious and intensely interesting piece of work' The GuardianThe Jesuit missionaries were some of the earliest Europeans to find their way into the Mogul empire in the sixteenth century. Spending more years at Akbar's court than others did months, and traversing his dominions from Lahore to Kabul, and from Kashmir to the Deccan, they undoubtedly sowed the seeds of British influence in the East.Reproducing, or summarizing the most valuable of the missionaries' l.
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Subject Akbar, Emperor of Hindustan, 1542-1605.
Akbar, Emperor of Hindustan, 1542-1605.
Jesuits -- Missions -- Mogul Empire -- Early works to 1800.
Jesuits.
Missions.
Jesuits -- Correspondence.
Genre/Form Correspondence.
Subject Missions -- India.
India.
Mogul Empire -- Early works to 1800.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Early works.
Personal correspondence.
Personal correspondence.
Added Author Payne, C. H. (Charles Herbert)
Added Title Histoire des choses plus memorables advenues tant ez Indes orientales que autres pais de la descouverte des Portugais. Selections. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80067455
Other Form: 9780415344814 0415344816
ISBN 9780203307526
0203307526
9780415344814
0415344816
0415344816 (cased)
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