328 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [September, 1912. 
history of the Catholic missions in the Moghul Empire must be 
written from the ‘ litterae annuae’ of the Jesuit missionaries. 
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under the shadow of the only two imposing structures of Mo- 
ghul might and supremacy which escaped the ravages of time 
Sultana, —that we should meet, I say, in that very city, the only 
two remaining Christian buildings of that epoch, proclaiming in 
their decent modesty the history of the Jesuit Mission in 
Northern India: Akbar’s Church in the Mission compound 
and the Martyrs’ Chapel, that resting place, dating back as 
far as 1611, where most of the Jesuit Fathers who laboured 
in Mogor lie interred ? 
t was under Akbar, the most tolerant as well as the ablest 
of the Moghul Emperors, that this church was erected. It has 
gion are considered. Is it not remarkable, too, that this un- 
protected altar of a faith equally obnoxious to the Muhamma- 
an and Hindi rulers, which the slightest breath of displeasure 
from either might have swept away, should have remained un- 
touched amidst convulsions which have subverted monarchies 
and changed religions of state? It is true Shah Jahan, 
after the fall of Hugli, had this church pulled down, but the 
altar remained. Aurangzeb, always jealous of whatever might 
staunch Muhammadan Aurangzeb, dated the 37th year of his 
reign and bearing the seal of his minister Asad Khan, exempt- 
