Base People in a Little Island
Clare Jackson: James I and Jahangir, 5 October 2023
Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire
by Nandini Das.
Bloomsbury, 440 pp., £30, March,978 1 5266 1564 0 Show More
by Nandini Das.
Bloomsbury, 440 pp., £30, March,
“... to ‘a great stage’, with Parvez seated like the ‘mock kings’ familiar to London playgoers. Nandini Das suggests that Roe’s theatrical tropes were deployed defensively in an attempt to diminish the opulent magnificence of the Mughal court. Yet he was the ambassador of James VI and I, who had advised his heir, Prince Henry, in Basilicon Doron ... ”
