Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire | Jaipur Literature Festival 2023

Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire | Nandini Das in conversation with William Dalrymple
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 about its identity as a unified 'Great Britain' under the Stuart monarchy. Meanwhile, the court he entered in India was wealthy and cultured, and its dominion was widely considered to be one of the greatest and richest empires in the world. Nandini Das's fascinating history of Roe's four years in India offers an insider's view of Britain in the making, a country whose imperial seeds were just being sown. In conversation with Festival Co-Director and historian William Dalrymple, Das unravels the most important encounters in the history of colonialism.
Nandini Das is a Professor of Early Modern English Literature and Culture and a Fellow of Exeter College at Oxford University. She is a scholar of Renaissance literature, travel, migration, and cross-cultural encounters. Her Cambridge History of Travel Writing (2019), co-edited with Tim Youngs, covers global Anglophone and non-Anglophone travel writing from antiquity to the internet, while Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility in Early Modern England(2021) traces the impact of travel and human mobility, both forced and voluntary, on fundamental ideas of identity and belonging. Courting India, her book on the first English embassy to Mughal India is forthcoming from Bloomsbury in March 2023.
William Dalrymple is the author of the Wolfson Prize-winning White Mughals, Duff Cooper Prize-winning The Last Mughal, and the Hemingway and Kapuscinski Prize-winning Return of a King. His book, The Anarchy, was shortlisted for the Duke of Wellington medal, the Tata Book of the Year, and the Historical Writers Association Award, and won the 2020 Arthur Ross Medal from the US Council on Foreign Relations. Dalrymple has been awarded five honorary doctorates, is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Asiatic Society, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and has held visiting lectureships at Princeton, Brown, and Oxford, where he is currently an Honorary Bodleian fellow. He was presented with the President’s Medal by the British Academy and was named one of the world’s top 50 thinkers for 2020 by Prospect Magazine. He is a founder and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival.
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