Courting India : England, Mughal India and the origins of empire
Das, Nandini, 1974-2024
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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.
Main title:
Author:
Das, Nandini, 1974-, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024.
Collation:
xxiv, 440 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2023.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781526615664 (pbk)
Dewey class:
954.0256
Language:
English
Subject:
Roe, Thomas, Sir, 1581?-1644Jahangir, Emperor of Hindustan, 1569-1627Great Britain -- Relations -- India -- HistoryIndia -- Relations -- Great Britain -- HistoryIndia -- History -- 1526-1765Great Britain -- History -- James I, 1603-1625HistoryIndiaBritish Empire17th century, c 1600 to c 1699Biography: generalHistory
BRN:
715422