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Courting India - England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire (Hardcover)
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Courting India - England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire (Hardcover)
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A 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. 'Beautifully
written and masterfully researched, this has the makings of a
classic' Peter Frankopan 'A modern masterpiece, delightful,
enlightening and faultless' John Keay 'A marvelous piece of
detective work, uncovering the secret machinations and courtly
intrigues that shaped the early encounters between two powers'
Amanda Foreman When Thomas Roe arrived in India in 1616 as James
I'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 '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. 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 - and offers a rich and radical challenge to our
understanding of Britain and its early empire.
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