Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire - Nandini Das

The author of this book, Nandini Das, is professor of Early Modern English Literature and Culture and Fellow of Exeter College at Oxford University. This book is a profound and ground-breaking history of one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism: the arrival the British in India in the early seventeenth century.

When Thomas Roe arrived in India in 1616 as James I's first embassador to the Mughal Empire, the English barely had a toehold in the subcontinent. Their understanding of the country and of trade was sketchy at best. The court that Roe entered was wealthy and cultured, one of the greatest empires of the world, the Britain that he had left behind was conflicted.

This book brings together the art, literature, sights and sounds of Jacobean London and Imperial India. It reveals 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.

Hardback. 440 pages.

Measurements:

16cm x 24cm x 4cm