The Broadway Travellers. Akbar and the Jesuits. An Account of the Jesuit Missions to the Court of Akbar

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Four of the artists rpresented in my small gallery namely Lal Sawalah Madhu and Muskin are mentioned by Abul Fazl in the ifin-i-ilkbari as ' among the forerunners on the high road of art '. I am much indebted to the Librarian of the British Mugeum Library and to the Curators of the Indian Section of the Viaoria and Albert Museum for the facilities afforded me in obtaining copies of the [...] In eftimating the hiftorical value of the Hifioire it is necessary to bear in mind the purpose of the compiler and the nature of the materials he had at his disposal as well as the fart that accuracy of reprodu6tion is not in itself a guarantee of the accuracy of the information reproduced. [...] The account here reproduced of the Missions to the court of Akbar is based on the letters of the Fathers by whom the Missions were condu6ted and the reports sent to the General of the Society at Rome by the Provincials at Goa. [...] For the gtudent of Indian higtory however the ouhanding intereft of du Jarric's compilation lies not so much in the references it contains to contemporary events as in the intimate light it sheds on the charaaer and mind of Akbar in the portraits it presents of the royal Princes and other notable figures of the time and in the insight it affords into the general conditions of life under Mo [...] But as already pointed out the attitude of the Fathers towards the general affairs of the empire was one of indifference ; and xliiiINTRODUCTION on this account and for the reasons previously given the Hinoire in so far as it relates to the a6tion of the political drama of the period needs to be read and used critically and with caution.

Title	Pages	Author/Editor
Preface	i-xlviii	Pierre Du Jarric, E. Ross, Eileen Power	View
Chapter I Akbar the Great Mogul	1-13	Pierre Du Jarric, E. Ross, Eileen Power	View
Chapter II the First Mission to Mogor	14-23	Pierre Du Jarric, E. Ross, Eileen Power	View
Chapter III ‘What is Truth?x2019;	24-34	Pierre Du Jarric, E. Ross, Eileen Power	View
Chapter IV Father Rudolf Aquaviva	35-43	Pierre Du Jarric, E. Ross, Eileen Power	View
Chapter V The Second Mission	44-50	Pierre Du Jarric, E. Ross, Eileen Power	View
Chapter VI Dispatch of the Third Mission	51-61	Pierre Du Jarric, E. Ross, Eileen Power	View
Chapter VII The Fathers at Court	62-71	Pierre Du Jarric, E. Ross, Eileen Power	View
Chapter VIII on Tour with the King	72-96	Pierre Du Jarric, E. Ross, Eileen Power	View
Chapter IX at the Seat of War	97-109	Pierre Du Jarric, E. Ross, Eileen Power	View
Chapter X an Embassy to Goa	110-117	Pierre Du Jarric, E. Ross, Eileen Power	View
Chapter XI Father Pigneiro at Lahore 1600-I	118-121	Pierre Du Jarric, E. Ross, Eileen Power	View
Chapter XII the Confidence Trick	122-126	Pierre Du Jarric, E. Ross, Eileen Power	View
Chapter XIII Some Notable Conversions	127-136	Pierre Du Jarric, E. Ross, Eileen Power	View
Chapter XIV A Brave Champion	137-151	Pierre Du Jarric, E. Ross, Eileen Power	View
Chapter XV An Imperial Farman	152-159	Pierre Du Jarric, E. Ross, Eileen Power	View
Chapter XVI A Miraculous Picture	160-172	Pierre Du Jarric, E. Ross, Eileen Power	View
Chapter XVII Events of the Year 1602	173-181	Pierre Du Jarric, E. Ross, Eileen Power	View
Chapter XVIII Prince Salim	182-191	Pierre Du Jarric, E. Ross, Eileen Power	View
Chapter XIX Persecution of the Fathers	192-202	Pierre Du Jarric, E. Ross, Eileen Power	View
Chapter XX the Death of Akbar	203-208	Pierre Du Jarric, E. Ross, Eileen Power	View
Notes	209-280	Pierre Du Jarric, E. Ross, Eileen Power	View
Index	281-288	Pierre Du Jarric, E. Ross, Eileen Power	View

The Broadway Travellers. Akbar and the Jesuits. An Account of the Jesuit Missions to the Court of Akbar

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