Название: Courting India: Seventeenth-Century England, Mughal India, and the Origins of Empire
Автор: Nandini Das
Издательство: Pegasus Books
ISBN: 163936322X
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 400
Размер: 32,5 МБ
Язык: Английский
A profound and ground-breaking approach to one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism: 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.