Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c21.3

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c21.3

(II.) Jerome X'avier: "The king (Akbar) is gifted with a wonderful memory, so that, although he can neither read nor write, he knows whatever he has heard learned men discoursing about, or whatever has been read to him." ["*Father Jerome X'avier*," by Mr. H. Beveridge, in *J.A.S.B.*, 1888, p. 37, giving an extract from a letter of Father Jerome X'avier, dated 1598 A.D. It has been utilized by E. D. Maclagen in *J.A.S.B.*, 1896, p. 77. I 207]

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