Preface IX;
List of Illustrations XII;
PART 1 Introduction;
1 The Threads and Knots of an Unusual Jesuit Text 3;
1.1 The Text: Outline and Profile 3;
1.2 The Context: Mughal-Portuguese Relations 10;
1.2.1 From Babur to Jahangir 10;
1.2.2 The Early 1610s 15;
1.3 The Authorship: Xavier or Pinheiro? 21;
1.4 The Readership: The (at Least) Four Iberian Lives of the Treatise 26;
1.4.1 Problems of Chronology and Transmission 26;
1.4.2 How Did a Manuscript Travel from Goa to Lisbon? 31;
1.4.3 Textual Practices 35 2 Reading the Treatise 43;
2.1 The Jesuit Missionary as Political Observer (Actor and Thinker) 43;
2.2 The Mughal Padshah 46;
2.2.1 Capital and Citadel, Family and Harem 48;
2.2.2 An Emperor on Display and in Command 55;
2.3 Jahangir by the Numbers 64;
2.3.1 Figures, Lists, Archives 64;
2.3.2 Household Expenses and Imperial Revenues 71;
2.3.3 Mansabdars and Mansabs 73;
2.4 Concluding Remarks 81;
PART 2 The Text;
1 The Manuscript: Its Translation and Transcription 85;
2 TextA: ANTT MS- Annotated English Translation: Treatise of the Cour and Household of Jahangir Padshah King of the Mughals 87;
On the Court of the Great Mughal 88;
On the Children and Kin of this King 90;
On the Occasions when the King Appears before His People; and the Order of His Household 92;
On the King's Wives, and How They are Served inside the Palace, and on the Riches of Their Garments, and of Their Persons 95;
Expenses of His Household 96;
Expenses with the Animals, and Other Things Pertaining to the Service of this King 97;
On the King's Treasures and Revenues 98;
On His Captains and Their Greatness 101;
On the Kingdoms This King Possesses 102;
Revenues of the Sons of Jahangir Padshah King of the Mughals, and of His Captains 105;
3 Text B: ANTT MS-Portuguese Original: Tratado da Corte, e Caza de lamguir Pachá Rey dos Mogores 130;
Da corte do Grõ [sic] Mogor 131;
Dos filhos e geração deste Rei 132;
Das vezes em que el Rey aparece a seu povo: e ordem de sua caza 133;
Das mulheres que este Rei tem, e como se servem de sua porta a dentro, e das riquezas de seu trajo, e de suas pesoas 135; Gastos de sua caza 137;
Gastos dos animais, e mais couzas do serviço deste rey 137;
Dos tizouros, e rendas que este Rey tem 138;
Dos seos capitais, e da sua grandeza 140;
Dos Reinos que este Rey tem 141;
Rendas dos filhos de Jamguir Pachá Rey dos Mogores e de seos capitais 143;
Bibliography 163;
Index 173.

In The Mughal Padshah Jorge Flores offers both a lucid English transla­tion and the Portuguese original of a previously unknown account of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir (r. 1605-1627). Probably penned by the Jesuit priest Jerónimo Xavier in 1610-11, the Treatise of the Court and Household of Jahangir Padshah King of the Mughals reads quite dif­ferently than the usual missionary report. Surviving in four different versions, this text reveals intriguing insights on Jahangir and his family, the Mughal court and its political rituals, as well as the imperial elite and its military and economic strength. A comprehensive introduction situ­ates the Treatise in the ‘disputed’ landscape of European accounts on Mughal India, as well as illuminates the actual conditions of production and readership of such a text between South Asia and the Iberian Peninsula. About the Author Jorge Flores (Ph.D. New University of Lisbon, 2005) is Professor of Early Modern Global History at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). He has published extensively on the social and cultural history of the Portuguese Empire in South Asia, 16th-17th centuries.