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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783726303321

Autore

Du Jarric Pierre <1566-1617., >

Titolo

Akbar and the Jesuits : an account of the Jesuit missions to the court of Akbar / / Father Pierre Du Jarric

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , [2004]

ISBN

81-7536-444-0

1-134-28508-6

1-280-24110-1

9786610241101

0-203-30752-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (190 p.)

Collana

The Broadway travellers ; ; 2

Disciplina

954.02540924

Soggetti

Missions - India

Mogul Empire Early works to 1800

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1926.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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