Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c21.2

c21.2

(I.) A Monserrat: "He (Akbar) can neither read nor write, but he is very curious, and has always men of letters about him, whom he gets to discuss on sundry topics and tell him various stories." [*Father A. Monserrate's Account of Akbar* (26th Nov., 1582)," edited and translated from Portuguese by Rev. H. Hosten, S.J., in *J.A.S.B.*, 1912, p. 194. See also *Memoirs of A.S.B.* (edited by Rev. H. Hosten, S.J.), vol. iii. No. 9, p. 643, for the Latin text of the passage. *Cf.* J. B. Peruschi, S.J., *Informatione del Regno e stato del gran Re di Mogor . . .,* Brescia, P. M. Morchetti (1597), which contains extracts from various letters, and is based for the greater part on Monserrate's *Relaçam do Equebar, Rei dos Mogores* (see *Memoirs of A.S.B.*, vol. iii., No. 9, p. 540). The *Asiatic Review*, July 1, 1915, p. 52, gives from this compilation a passage bearing on Akbar.]