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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. _______________
‘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
technicolour’ - Spectator ‘Beautifully written and masterfully
researched, this has the makings of a classic’ - Peter Frankopan
_______________ *A Financial Times Book to Read in 2023* 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.
This volume addresses dealings with the wondrous, magical, holy,
sacred, sainted, numinous, uncanny, auratic, and sacral in the
plays of Shakespeare and contemporaries, produced in an era often
associated with the irresistible rise of a thinned-out secular
rationalism. By starting from the literary text and looking
outwards to social, cultural, and historical aspects, it comes to
grips with the instabilities of 'enchanted' and 'disenchanted'
practices of thinking and knowledge-making in the early modern
period. If what marvelously stands apart from conceptions of the
world's ordinary functioning might be said to be 'enchanted', is
the enchantedness weakened, empowered, or modally altered by its
translation to theatre? We have a received historical narrative of
disenchantment as a large-scale early modern cultural process,
inexorable in character, consisting of the substitution of a
rationally understood and controllable world for one containing
substantial areas of mystery. Early modern cultural change,
however, involves transpositions, recreations, or fresh inventions
of the enchanted, and not only its replacement in diminished or
denatured form. This collection is centrally concerned with what
happens in theatre, as a medium which can give power to experiences
of wonder as well as circumscribe and curtail them, addressing
plays written for the popular stage that contribute to and reflect
significant contemporary reorientations of vision, awareness, and
cognitive practice. The volume uses the idea of
dis-enchantment/re-enchantment as a central hub to bring multiple
perspectives to bear on early modern conceptualizations and
theatricalizations of wonder, the sacred, and the supernatural from
different vantage points, marking a significant contribution to
studies of magic, witchcraft, enchantment, and natural philosophy
in Shakespeare and early modern drama.
This volume addresses dealings with the wondrous, magical, holy,
sacred, sainted, numinous, uncanny, auratic, and sacral in the
plays of Shakespeare and contemporaries, produced in an era often
associated with the irresistible rise of a thinned-out secular
rationalism. By starting from the literary text and looking
outwards to social, cultural, and historical aspects, it comes to
grips with the instabilities of 'enchanted' and 'disenchanted'
practices of thinking and knowledge-making in the early modern
period. If what marvelously stands apart from conceptions of the
world's ordinary functioning might be said to be 'enchanted', is
the enchantedness weakened, empowered, or modally altered by its
translation to theatre? We have a received historical narrative of
disenchantment as a large-scale early modern cultural process,
inexorable in character, consisting of the substitution of a
rationally understood and controllable world for one containing
substantial areas of mystery. Early modern cultural change,
however, involves transpositions, recreations, or fresh inventions
of the enchanted, and not only its replacement in diminished or
denatured form. This collection is centrally concerned with what
happens in theatre, as a medium which can give power to experiences
of wonder as well as circumscribe and curtail them, addressing
plays written for the popular stage that contribute to and reflect
significant contemporary reorientations of vision, awareness, and
cognitive practice. The volume uses the idea of
dis-enchantment/re-enchantment as a central hub to bring multiple
perspectives to bear on early modern conceptualizations and
theatricalizations of wonder, the sacred, and the supernatural from
different vantage points, marking a significant contribution to
studies of magic, witchcraft, enchantment, and natural philosophy
in Shakespeare and early modern drama.
Romance was criticized for its perceived immorality throughout the
Renaissance, and even enthusiasts were often forced to acknowledge
the shortcomings of its dated narrative conventions. Yet despite
that general condemnation, the striking growth in English fiction
in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries is marked by
writers who persisted in using this much-maligned narrative form.
In Renaissance Romance, Nandini Das examines why the fears and
expectations surrounding the old genre of romance resonated with
successive new generations at this particular historical juncture.
Across a range of texts in which romance was adopted by the court,
by popular print and by women, Das shows how the process of
realignment and transformation through which the new prose fiction
took shape was driven by a generational consciousness that was
always inherent in romance. In the fiction produced by writers such
as Sir Philip Sidney, Robert Greene and Lady Mary Wroth, the
transformative interaction of romance with other emergent forms,
from the court masque to cartography, was determined by specific
configurations of social groups, drawn along the lines of
generational difference. What emerged as a result of that
interaction radically changed the possibilities of fiction in the
period.
Romance was criticized for its perceived immorality throughout the
Renaissance, and even enthusiasts were often forced to acknowledge
the shortcomings of its dated narrative conventions. Yet despite
that general condemnation, the striking growth in English fiction
in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries is marked by
writers who persisted in using this much-maligned narrative form.
In Renaissance Romance, Nandini Das examines why the fears and
expectations surrounding the old genre of romance resonated with
successive new generations at this particular historical juncture.
Across a range of texts in which romance was adopted by the court,
by popular print and by women, Das shows how the process of
realignment and transformation through which the new prose fiction
took shape was driven by a generational consciousness that was
always inherent in romance. In the fiction produced by writers such
as Sir Philip Sidney, Robert Greene and Lady Mary Wroth, the
transformative interaction of romance with other emergent forms,
from the court masque to cartography, was determined by specific
configurations of social groups, drawn along the lines of
generational difference. What emerged as a result of that
interaction radically changed the possibilities of fiction in the
period.
When Planetomachia was published in 1585, Greene himself-always the
best advertiser of his own books-promised his readers a perfectly
balanced diet of edification and entertainment. He described his
newest offering as an astronomical discourse on the nature and
influence of the planets interlaced with 'pleasant and tragical
histories,' which one could ostensibly use as a manual to identify
various planetary influences on 'natural constitution.' In this
first complete critical edition, Nandini Das presents Planetomachia
as a complex hybrid which is eminently a product of its times,
exploring how the two very different intellectual and cultural
spheres of Humanist scholarship and Renaissance popular print
engage in an intriguing, albeit uneasy, dialogue to produce this
unique work of prose fiction. The volume gives a clear sense,
afforded by no other existing edition, of the intellectual climate
which shaped this text. It offers substantial introductory material
(on biographical, literary and scientific contexts) and extensive
annotation identifying Greene's allusions and elucidating his
vocabulary. It also includes translations and extracts from
significant sources, along with a bibliography of relevant primary
texts and critical work on Greene generally and on Planetomachia in
particular.
What did it mean to be a 'go-between' in the early modern world?
How were such figures perceived in sixteenth and seventeenth
century England? And what effect did their movement between
languages, countries, religions and social spaces - whether
enforced or voluntary - have on the ways in which people navigated
questions of identity and belonging? Lives in Transit in Early
Modern England is a work of interdisciplinary scholarship which
examines how questions of mobility and transculturality were
negotiated in practice in the early modern world. Edited by Nandini
Das, the twenty-four essays by Joao Vicente Melo, Tom Roberts, Haig
Smith, Emily Stevenson, and Lauren Working cover a wide range of
figures from different walks of life and corners of the globe,
ranging from ambassadors to Amazons, monarchs to missionaries,
translators to theologians. Together, the essays in this volume
provide an invaluable resource for readers interested in questions
of race, belonging, and human identity.
What did it mean to be a stranger in sixteenth- and
seventeenth-century England? How were other nations, cultures, and
religions perceived? What happened when individuals moved between
languages, countries, religions, and spaces? Keywords of Identity,
Race, and Human Mobility analyses a selection of terms that were
central to the conceptualisation of identity, race, migration, and
transculturality in the early modern period. In many cases, the
concepts and debates that they embody - or sometimes subsume - came
to play crucial roles in the articulation of identity, rights, and
power in subsequent periods. Together, the essays in this volume
provide an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the
development of these formative issues.
Bringing together original contributions from scholars around the
world, this volume traces the history of travel writing from
antiquity to the Internet age. It examines travel texts of several
national or linguistic traditions, introducing readers to the
global contexts of the genre. From wilderness to the urban, from
Nigeria to the polar regions, from mountains to rivers and the
desert, this book explores some of the key places and physical
features represented in travel writing. Chapters also consider the
employment in travel writing of the diary, the letter, visual
images, maps and poetry, as well as the relationship of travel
writing to fiction, science, translation and tourism. Gender-based
and ecocritical approaches are among those surveyed. Together, the
thirty-seven chapters here underline the richness and complexity of
this genre.
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.
This book discusses the employment scenario in India which existed
from the mid fifties till 2000.It draws a profile of the labour
force in urban India. It portrays how the change in workforce has
affected the labour market at large. It discusses the changing
scenario of the informal workforce from the 80s to 2000.A
comparison has been drawn between the formal and informal workers
in terms of their socio economic backgrounds. Further it goes on to
show how the economic status of the informal workers have changed
over the decades and discusses the future of the informal workers
in terms of their increasing numbers and their involvement in the
different sectors of work.
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