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Travellers in the Golden Realm - How Mughal India Connected England to the World

English · Paperback / Softback

Will be released 18.07.2024

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When the first English travellers in India encountered an unimaginable superpower, their meetings would change the world. Before the East India Company and before the British Empire, England was a pariah state. Seeking better fortunes, 16th and 17th century merchants, pilgrims and outcasts ventured to the kingdom of the mighty Mughals, attempting to sell coarse woollen broadcloth along the silk roads; playing courtiers in the Mughal palaces in pursuit of love; or simply touring the sub-continent in search of an elephant to ride. Into this golden realm went Father Thomas Stephens, a Catholic fleeing his home; the merchant Ralph Fitch looking for jewels in the markets of Bengal; and John Mildenhall, an adventurer revelling in the highwire politics of the Mughal elite. It was a land ruled from the shadows by women - the formidable Empress Nur Jahan Begim, the enterprising Queen Mother Maryam al-Zamani, and the intrepid Princess Jahanara Begim. Their collision of worlds helped connect East and West, launching a tempestuous period of globalisation spanning from the Chinese opium trade to the slave trade in the Americas. Drawing on rich, original sources, Lubaaba Al-Azzami traces the origins of a relationship between two nations - one outsider and one superpower - whose cultures remain inextricably linked to this day.

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Dr Lubaaba Al-Azami is a cultural historian specialising in the Global Renaissance. She is a lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at the University of Manchester and a research fellow at the University of Liverpool. She is also founding editor of Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs, memorients.com), a leading digital platform on premodern encounters between England and the Islamic Worlds.

Product details

Authors Lubaaba Al-Azami
Publisher John Murray
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Release 18.07.2024, delayed
 
EAN 9781529371338
ISBN 978-1-5293-7133-8
No. of pages 320
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Indian sub-continent, South Asia (Indian sub-continent), C 1600 To C 1700, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General

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