Courting India

Name: Courting India
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
SKU: 9781526615664
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England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire

Автор: Nandini Das

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Bloomsbury Publishing

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WINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZEA SPECTATOR, WATERSTONES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, PROSPECT AND...

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Автор

Nandini Das

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2024

страници

480

EAN

9781526615664

Enbook ID

43621512

Издател

Bloomsbury Publishing

Теглоt

364

Размери

129 x 198

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WINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZEA SPECTATOR, WATERSTONES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, PROSPECT AND HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEARA profound and ground-breaking new history of one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism: the British arrival in India in the early seventeenth century. â€˜A triumph of writing and scholarship. It is hard to imagine anyone ever bettering Das's account of this part of the storyâ€™ - William Dalrymple, Financial Times â€˜A fascinating glimpse of the origins of the British Empire .. . drawn in dazzling technicolourâ€™ - Spectatorâ€˜Beautifully written and masterfully researched, this has the makings of a classicâ€™ - Peter FrankopanLONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA CROWN AWARDSWhen Thomas Roe arrived in India in 1616 as James Iâ€™s first ambassador to the Mughal Empire, the English barely had a toehold 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 â€˜Great Britainâ€™ 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. A major debut that explores the art, literature, sights and sounds of Jacobean London and Imperial India, Courting India reveals Thomas Roe's time in the Mughal Empire to be a turning point in history â€“ and offers a rich and radical challenge to our understanding of Britain and its early empire.

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