Akbar and the Jesuits : : An Account of the Jesuit Missions to the Court of Akbar / / Pierre du Jarric.
The narrative of the Jesuit missions to Akbar, ruler of the Mughal Empire in India, is a noted period piece in travel writing. Although the author never traveled abroad, he compiled a substantial history of Jesuit missionary activity. This book narrates the missions to India in the 16th and 17th cen...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2008] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Kiraz Historic Travels Archive
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 8 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- LIST OF PRINCIPAL AUTHORITIES CONSULTED
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER ONE. AKBAR, THE GREAT MOGUL
- CHAPTER TWO. THE FIRST MISSION TO MOGOR
- CHAPTER THREE. ' WHAT IS TRUTH?'
- CHAPTER FOUR. FATHER RUDOLF AQUAVIVA
- CHAPTER FIVE. THE SECOND MISSION
- CHAPTER SIX. DISPATCH OF THIRD MISSION
- CHAPTER SEVEN. THE FATHERS AT COURT
- CHAPTER EIGHT. ON TOUR WITH THE KING
- CHAPTER NINE. AT THE SEAT OF WAR
- CHAPTER TEN. AN EMBASSY TO GOA
- CHAPTER ELEVEN. FATHER PIGNEIRO AT LAHORE, 1600-1
- CHAPTER TWELVE. THE CONFIDENCE TRICK
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN. SOME NOTABLE CONVERSIONS
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN. A BRAVE CHAMPION
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN. AN IMPERIAL FARMAN
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN. A MIRACULOUS PICTURE
- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. EVENTS OF THE TEAR 1602
- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. PRINCE SALIM
- CHAPTER NINETEEN. PERSECUTION OF THE FATHERS
- CHAPTER TWENTY. THE DEATH OF AKBAR
- NOTES
- INDEX