Courting India : seventeenth-century England, Mughal India, and the origins of empire / Nandini Das

By:

Das, Nandini, 1974- [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Pegasus Books, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Edition: First Pegasus Books cloth editionDescription: xxii, 440 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 24 cmContent type:

text
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cartographic image

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

163936322X
9781639363223

Other title:

Seventeenth-century England, Mughal India, and the origins of empire

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DDC classification:

954 D229C

LOC classification:

954 D229C .D37 2023

Contents:

Maps -- Conventions -- Prologue -- 1. Nova Felix Arabia -- 2. Trades increase -- 3. India Englished -- 4. Knight's move -- 5. Odcombian legstretcher -- 6. Descendants of Tamburlaine -- 7. The first meeting -- 8. The prince -- 9. The matter with Mr. Jones -- 10. Hidden figures -- 11. The wager -- 12. Little commonwealth -- 13. Lashkar -- 14. A patient king -- 15. The chaplain -- 16. Factors -- 17. Queen Normal -- 18. Triumph of honour and industry -- 19. Full resolution -- 20. London -- Epilogue

Summary: "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 represented 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 this fascinating history of Roe's four years in India, Nandini Das offers an insider's view of Britain in the making, a country whose imperial seeds were just being sown. It is a story of palace intrigue, scandal, lotteries, and wagers that unfold as global trade begins to stretch from Russia to Virginia, from West Africa to the Spice Islands of Indonesia."-- Provided by publisher

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Harvest Mission College General Stacks	Non-fiction	954 D229C (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		013115

Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-416) and index

"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 represented 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 this fascinating history of Roe's four years in India, Nandini Das offers an insider's view of Britain in the making, a country whose imperial seeds were just being sown. It is a story of palace intrigue, scandal, lotteries, and wagers that unfold as global trade begins to stretch from Russia to Virginia, from West Africa to the Spice Islands of Indonesia."-- Provided by publisher

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