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

Author: Nandini Das

Description: Nandini Das examines the relationship between seventeenth-century England and Mughal India, focusing on the early encounters that laid the foundation for British imperialism in India. The book highlights diplomatic, commercial, and cultural exchanges between the two regions and how these shaped British ambitions. Das argues that the foundations of British rule were established not through military conquest alone but through complex networks of diplomacy, trade, and negotiation.

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