Description
Join Nandini Das and Rana Safvi for this profound and illuminating discussion as they discuss one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism.
Professor Das will discuss her ground-breaking new book, Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire, which charts the British arrival in India in the early 17th century. The story centres on Thomas Roe who arrived in India in 1616 as James I’s first ambassador to the Mughal Empire, when the English barely had a toehold in the subcontinent.
Professor Das’s fascinating history of Roe’s four years in India offers an insider’s view of a Britain in the making. She’s joined by writer, translator and podcaster Safvi, author of 10 books on culture, history, and the monuments of India and Sufism. Join our panellists as they challenge our understanding of Britain’s early empire.
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About the Academic
Professor Nandini Das
Nandini Das is professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture in the English faculty at the University of Oxford. She is a specialist in Shakespeare studies, Renaissance romance writing, early travel literature, and encounters between different cultures.
About the Speaker
Rana Safvi
Rana Safvi is a passionate believer in India’s unique civilizational legacy and pluralistic culture which she documents through her writings, podcasts and videos. She has published ten books so far on culture, history, the monuments of India and Sufism. These are Tales from the Quran and Hadith, The Delhi Trilogy: Where Stones Speak, The Forgotten Cities of Delhi and Shahjahanabad: The Living City of Old Delhi, A Saint, A Folk Tale and Other Stories, In Search of The Divine, Living Histories of Sufism in India.She has translated both the editions of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan’s seminal work on Delhi, Asar-us-Sanadid, Dastan-e-Ghadar and four accounts of 19th & 20th century Delhi, Begumat ke Aansoo from Urdu to English.
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