The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c18.107

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For the expedition against the Portuguese at Hooghly there were grounds other than those of religious intolerance. But the small band of captives who eventually reached Āgra alive were severely treated in the hope of obtaining their conversion. Those who accepted Islām were more kindly dealt with, and employment was found for them. The buildings and land of the mission at Āgra were taken over, but two years later were restored. Although it was ordered that the church should first be dismantled the materials were left with the priests, who were permitted to build a house and to baptize children of Christians, and perform marriages, to visit the sick, to hold services for their congregations, and to use the cemetery which had been granted by Jahāngīr and contains the oldest Christian tombs in northern India.¹ Churches in other parts of the Mughul dominions were also demolished, but in 1641 Manrique was successful in obtaining a grant for the restoration of the church in Sind, and also secured the release of one of the priests who had been taken prisoner at Hooghly.