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

Courting India : England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire by Nandini DasWINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZEA SPECTATOR, WATERSTONES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, PROSPECT AND HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEARA profound and ground breaking new history of one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism: the British arrival in India in the early seventeenth century.A triumph of writing and scholarship. It is hard to imagine anyone ever bettering Das's account of this part of the story William Dalrymple,

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