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pointed to the faujdarship of that region. He is an accomplished composer of 

 Hindi songs. His method in this art was correct, and his compositions were fre- 

 quently brought to my notice and were approved." l 



The passage belongs to the end of the 15th year of Jahanglr's reign and Zu-1- 

 Oarnain appears to have gone to take up his appointment in February, 1621. The 

 Tuzuk-i-J ahanglri is, however, at variance here with the Jesuit Annual Letters, which 

 speak of him in 1619 as Governor of a Province, which we supposed to be Sambhar. 

 But the Tuzuk-i-J ahanglri agrees in stating that, previous to his appointment to the 

 faujdarship, he had been in charge there of the government salt works. 



In May 1628, Father Francisco Corsi, S.J., who had been in Mogor since February 

 1600, wrote to the General of the Society of Jesus in Rome a statement regarding the 

 benefactions made to the Mission of Mogor by Mirza Sikandar and Mirza Zu-1- 

 Qarnain since 1613. One of the Mirza's chief titles to the everlasting gratitude 

 of the Fathers was that he had donated in 161 9 a large sum of money with 

 which to buy landed property in the " North/' i.e., near Salsette, Bombay. The 

 Missionaries and their Christian poor were thus made independent of the King, by 

 whom chiefly they had until then been maintained. The Mirza's foundation was called 

 the Collegium inchoatum of Agra. As in the case of the " College " of Hugll, the 

 term " College ' ' applied to the Jesuit House of Agra has led to many misunder- 

 standings. The organisation of the Society did not then know residences not 

 dependent on a "College"; hence, when the Order established itself in a new 

 country, a st College " was founded, around which secondary houses were grouped. 2 

 Agra under the Jesuits (1600-1773) never had a College worth speaking of. At most 

 there was a small school for elementary education. The " Rector " of the Agra 

 College was merely the Superior of the Mogor Mission, the Agra " College " being 

 the chief Jesuit House in Mogor with two or at most three other mission-stations 

 dependent on it. About 1628, Zu-1-Qarnain made another foundation for a <l Col- 

 lege " in Tibet. Evidently, there was no question of a big school to be conducted in 

 Tibet, but of a Mission in want of regular subsidies to carry on its work. The head- 

 station would have been called a " College," and its branch-stations, " Residences." 

 On the destruction of the Tibet Mission about 1640, the Superior of the Mogor Mis- 

 sion asked that its funds should be applied to the Agra College, the revenues of 



1 "... It is mentioned in M. Waris's continuation of the Padishxh-nama, p. 392, of B.M. MS., that Zu-1-Qarnain 

 Farangi came from Bengal and presented poems which he had composed on Shih Jahan's name, and got a present of 

 Rs. 4,000. He it was, probably, who entertained Coryat. The passage in the text seems to show that Akbar had an 

 Armenian wife." [H. B.] Tuzuk-i-J ahanglri , Op. cit., II. 194, n. 1. — -On the 4th Urdlbihisht a.h. 1032 (1623), one Mansur 

 Khan Farangi with his brother (the MSS. have " his brother Maghrur") and Naubat Khin Dakhani (the MSS. have a 

 name that is not Naubat, but perhaps Yunas or Yiinash Khin) separated from B:-daulat (Prince Khurram), and entered 

 Jahanglr's service. " Mansur's circumstances," says the historian, " have been recorded in the preceding pages," where- 

 upon Mr. H. Beveridge asks, where ? (Cf. ibid. , II. 258). He is mentioned later (p. 271 ), where his death is recorded in 

 1623. '• Perhaps," says Mr. H. B., " he is the Armenian mentioned in the 15th year as Zu-1-Qarnain. But, an Armenian 

 would hardly be called a Farangi." {Ibid., II, 258, n. 1). On this we remark that Mr. H. B. has himself shown (ibid., 

 II, 194, n. 1) that Zu-1-Qarnain was called Farangi. Mansur Khan, killed in 1623, cannot be Zu-1-Qarnain, who died some 

 30 years later. 



* " Nee admittendie censebantur Residential perpetuae, nisi vel tanquam membra alicujus Collegii, vel tanquam Col- 

 legia inchoata " (a. 1619-23). Cf. H. Ramiere, S.J., Compendium Instituti Soc. Jesu, Tolosee, 1896, p. 124. 



