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020			_a9781526615657
028			_a: Brijwasi Book Distributors _b: H-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi _c; BW/000104 _d; 20/01/2024
082			_a942 DAS
100			_aDas, Nandini.
245			_aCourting India _b: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire. _c/ Nandini Das.
260			_a, London _b: Bloomsbury Publishing _c,2023.
300			_axxii,440p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b699
520			_aWhen 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 Elizabethan 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.
650			_aFascinating history
650			_aMughal Empire
650			_aCourting India
700			_aNandini Das
942			_cBOOK
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