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Cannot wait to discuss #CourtingIndia by @rentravailer.bsky.social in this months @histfest.bsky.social non fiction bookclub! #skystorians #history #books #mughals #bookclub

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The house was rented by Alderman William Halliday and wife Susanna. I spent *so long* being unnecessarily fascinated by the garden-share when writing #CourtingIndia! Thomas and Eleanor Roe were put up there on rtn from India (Susanna was Roe's cousin), and they had the same access to the garden.

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This was one of the highlights of the year for me -- deeply delighted and honoured that #CourtingIndia received such an imaginative, timely creative response from Arko Datto.

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Reinterpreting the first English diplomatic mission to India – in pictures Photographer Arko Datto reinterprets British Academy Book Prize-winning book Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire by Nandini Das, in a special commission by the British Acad...

I am so thrilled to see Arko Datto's superb photographic response to #CourtingIndia in the Guardian today:
www.theguardian.com/world/galler...

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Image of Nandini Das, Amrita Sen and the cover of "Courting India"

Image of Nandini Das, Amrita Sen and the cover of "Courting India"

Join the amazing Amrita Sen in conversation with the exquisitely erudite & excellent @rentravailer.bsky.social as they discuss Das’s landmark book, #CourtingIndia, Online, February 23, 2024, 18.00GMT #SRSlyGood www.rensoc.org.uk/event/unmaki...

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