Jorge Flores (Ed. & Transl.), The Mughal Padshah. A Jesuit Treatise on Emperor Jahangir’s Court and Household, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2016. 200 p.
Résumé
In 1610 or 1611, the Portuguese Jesuit Jerónimo Xavier drafts a brief treatise on the mughal court at the time of emperor (padshah) Jahangir; this testimony, entitled Tratado da Corte e Caza de Iamguir Pachá Rey dos Mogores, is the fruit of his long stay of about twenty years at the court of Agra, where he went as leader of the third Portuguese Jesuit mission in India. Jorge Flores, specialist on Portuguese India, here provides us with the edition of the original text (which is handwritten and remained unpublished until our days), as well as with the English translation, preceded by a short foreword and especially by a long introduction. This extensive introduction is in fact a real study allowing the reader to contextualize the document and to understand its contents, particularly through the use of letters sent by the Jesuit Father to his superiors.
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