Jahangir And The Jesuits
With An Account Of The Travel Of The Benedict Goes And The Mission To Pegu
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Hardback
£63.00
Publisher: Manohar Publishers and Distributors
ISBN: 9788119139583
Number of Pages: 318
Published: 31/08/2023
Width: 16 cm
Height: 24 cm
A sequel to the volume, Akbar and the Jesuits, translated into English by C.H. Payne, in 1930, it describes the encounters of Jesuit missionaries in the Mughal court under Emperor Jahangir (r.1605-1627). The book is divided into three parts, the first part being the main theme of the book, which talks about the Jesuit account of court activities and their religious mission. The second part contains the accounts, which include the Travels of Benedict Goës and the third part is about the Jesuit mission to Pegu and the deputation of Portuguese emissaries to Goa. These parts discusses the first decades of the seventeenth century concerning the political happenings in the Mughal court and the Portuguese missions to South East and East Asia. The first part covers the infamous rebellion of Prince Salim against his father Emperor Akbar (r.1556-1605). It also covers the conversion of two Mughal princes to Christianity, the Jesuit father's mission to the Agra court, inter-faith debates between the Jesuit fathers and Muslim clergies, the Mughal king's reverence to Jesus Christ, and the neo-converts to the Christian faith. The second part of this book talks about Benedict Goës trip from Lahore, which was another Mughal capital, to Yarkand, situated in the current Xinjiang autonomous province of China, and Suchou in mainland China.
- Part I Jahangir and the Jesuits
- Chapter One: The Rebellion of the Print against his father and the consequences thereof 3
- Chapter Two: How the King began his reign. He compels two Christian children to become Moors 13
- Chapter Three: Some converts to the Faith 24
- Chapter Fourth: Some Events of the year 1607 32
- Chapter Five: The Fathers accompany the King to Agra 43
- Chapter Six: The fathers dispute with the Moor before King 49
- Chapter Seven: A dispute on the divinity of Christ 58
- Chapter Eight: The King's reverence for Christ 63
- Chapter Nine: The King sends an Embassy to Goa 77
- Notes to Part I 88
- Part II The Travels of Benedict Goes
- Chapter One: Introductory 119
- Chapter Two: Lahore to Yarkand 126
- Chapter Three: At Yarkand 135
- Chapter Four: Yarkand to Suchou 150
- NOTE to Part II 163
- Part III The Mission to Pegu
- Chapter One: The Rain of Pegu 185
- Chapter Two: Philip de Brito establishes himself aty Syriam 194
- Chapter Three: Ten Reasons for holding the parts of Bengala 201
- Chapter Four: Defeat of the Arakanese Armada 207
- Chapter Five: In which a treaty is made and broken 216
- Chapter Six: The Battle of Negrais 224
- Chapter Seven: The Siege of Syriam 231
- Chapter Eight: The Fortress Captures 241
- Notes to Part III 252
- Appendix 277
- Index 279