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Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire

Nandini Das

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Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire

In September 1615, Thomas Roe—Britain's first ambassador to the Mughal Empire—made landfall on the western coast of India. Roe entered the court of Jahangir, "conqueror of the world," one of immense wealth, power, and culture that looked askance at the representative of a precarious and distant island nation. Though London was at the height of the Renaissance—the era of Shakespeare, Jonson, and Donne—financial strife and fragile powerbases presented risk and uncertainty at every turn. What followed in India was a turning-point in history, a story of palace intrigue, scandal, and mutual incomprehension that unfolds as global trade begins to stretch from Russia to Virginia, from West Africa to the Spice Islands of Indonesia. Using an incisive blend of Indian and British records, and exploring the art, literature, sights, and sounds of Elizabethan London and Imperial India, Das portrays the nuances of cultural and national collision on an individual and human level.

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Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Year
2023
ISBN-13
9781639363230
Genre
History
Topics
Colonialism and British EmpireMughal IndiaAnglo-Indian diplomatic relations

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