Read Courting India: Seventeenth-Century England, Mughal India, and the Origins of Empire

Courting India: Seventeenth-Century England, Mughal India, and the Origins of Empire

Nandini Das

4.9/5 (23081 ratings)

Description:A profound and ground-breaking approach to one of the most important encounters in the history of the British arrival in India in the early seventeenth century.Traditional interpretations to the British Empire’s emerging success and expansion has long overshadowed the deep uncertainty that marked its initial entanglement with India. In September 1615, Thomas Roe—Britain’s first ambassador to the Mughal Empire—made landfall on the western coast of India. Roe entered the court of Jahangir, “conqueror of the world,” one of immense wealth, power, and culture that looked askance at the representative of a precarious and distant island nation. Though London was at the height of the Renaissance—the era of Shakespeare, Jonson, and Donne—financial strife and fragile powerbases presented risk and uncertainty at every turn. What followed in India was a turning-point in history, a story of palace intrigue, scandal, and mutual incomprehension that unfolds as global trade begins to stretch from Russia to Virginia, from West Africa to the Spice Islands of Indonesia. Using an incisive blend of Indian and British records, and exploring the art, literature, sights, and sounds of Elizabethan London and Imperial India, Das portrays the nuances of cultural and national collision on an individual and human level. The result is a rich and radical challenge to our understanding of Britain and its early empire—and a cogent reminder of the dangers of distortion in the history books of the victors.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Courting India: Seventeenth-Century England, Mughal India, and the Origins of Empire. To get started finding Courting India: Seventeenth-Century England, Mughal India, and the Origins of Empire, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: 580

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 1639363238

Description: A profound and ground-breaking approach to one of the most important encounters in the history of the British arrival in India in the early seventeenth century.Traditional interpretations to the British Empire’s emerging success and expansion has long overshadowed the deep uncertainty that marked its initial entanglement with India. In September 1615, Thomas Roe—Britain’s first ambassador to the Mughal Empire—made landfall on the western coast of India. Roe entered the court of Jahangir, “conqueror of the world,” one of immense wealth, power, and culture that looked askance at the representative of a precarious and distant island nation. Though London was at the height of the Renaissance—the era of Shakespeare, Jonson, and Donne—financial strife and fragile powerbases presented risk and uncertainty at every turn. What followed in India was a turning-point in history, a story of palace intrigue, scandal, and mutual incomprehension that unfolds as global trade begins to stretch from Russia to Virginia, from West Africa to the Spice Islands of Indonesia. Using an incisive blend of Indian and British records, and exploring the art, literature, sights, and sounds of Elizabethan London and Imperial India, Das portrays the nuances of cultural and national collision on an individual and human level. The result is a rich and radical challenge to our understanding of Britain and its early empire—and a cogent reminder of the dangers of distortion in the history books of the victors.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Courting India: Seventeenth-Century England, Mughal India, and the Origins of Empire. To get started finding Courting India: Seventeenth-Century England, Mughal India, and the Origins of Empire, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Courting India: Seventeenth-Century England, Mughal India, and the Origins of Empire

Courting India: Seventeenth-Century England, Mughal India, and the Origins of Empire

More Books

Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire

Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire

The Cambridge History of Travel Writing

The Cambridge History of Travel Writing

Renaissance Romance: The Transformation of English Prose Fiction, 1570–1620

Renaissance Romance: The Transformation of English Prose Fiction, 1570–1620

Renaissance Romance by Nandini Das (2011) Hardcover

Renaissance Romance by Nandini Das (2011) Hardcover

Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility in Early Modern England (Connected Histories in the Early Modern World)

Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility in Early Modern England (Connected Histories in the Early Modern World)

Enchantment and Dis-enchantment in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama: Wonder, the Sacred, and the Supernatural (Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)

Enchantment and Dis-enchantment in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama: Wonder, the Sacred, and the Supernatural (Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)

Lives in Transit in Early Modern England (Connected Histories in the Early Modern World)

Lives in Transit in Early Modern England (Connected Histories in the Early Modern World)

This Little World: A New History of Tudor and Stuart England

This Little World: A New History of Tudor and Stuart England

Robert Greene's Planetomachia (1585) (Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity)

Robert Greene's Planetomachia (1585) (Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity)