Courting India - Nandini Das

A 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 Financial Times Book to Read in 2023* 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 abo Courting India - Nandini Das od authora Nandini Das a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus.cz
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