Nandini Das
Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire
Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire
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Nandini Das's "Courting India" is a groundbreaking new history of the British arrival in India in the early seventeenth century, offering an insider's view of a Britain in the making and challenging our understanding of Britain and its early empire.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 480 pages
Publication date: 15 February 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Winner of the British Academy Book Prize, A Spectator, Waterstones, BBC History Magazine, Prospect, and History Today Book of the Year, this profound and groundbreaking new history delves into one of the most significant encounters in the history of colonialism: the British arrival in India in the early seventeenth century.
"A triumph of writing and scholarship, it is hard to imagine anyone ever bettering Das's account of this part of the story." - William Dalrymple, Financial Times
"A fascinating glimpse of the origins of the British Empire. . . drawn in dazzling technicolor." - Spectator
"Beautifully written and masterfully researched, this has the makings of a classic." - Peter Frankopan
Shortlisted for the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize, Longlisted for the Cundill History Prize, and Shortlisted for the HWA Crown Awards, When Thomas Roe arrived in India in 1616 as James I's first ambassador to the Mughal Empire, the English had barely a foothold in the subcontinent. Their understanding of South Asian trade and India was sketchy at best, and to the Mughals, they were minor players on a very large stage. Roe was representing a kingdom that was beset by financial woes and deeply conflicted about its identity as a unified "Great Britain under the Stuart monarchy. Meanwhile, the court he entered in India was wealthy and cultured, its dominion widely considered to be one of the greatest and richest empires of the world.
In Nandini Das's fascinating history of Roe's four years in India, she offers an insider's view of a Britain in the making, a country whose imperial seeds were just being sown. It is a story of palace intrigue and scandal, lotteries and wagers that unfolds as global trade begins to stretch from Russia to Virginia, from West Africa to the Spice Islands of Indonesia.
Weight: 364g
Dimension: 129 x 198 x 33 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781526615664
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