India-born author Nandini Das is winner of 2023 British Academy Book Prize

India-born author Nandini Das is winner of 2023 British Academy Book Prize

• India-born author Nandini Das has been named the winner of the 2023 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, a leading international non-fiction prize, for her book ‘Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire'. Das is a Professor of English literatre at the University of Oxford.

• The winning book is her debut and has been described by critics as the “true origin story of Britain and India told through England's first diplomatic mission to the Mughal courts”. The author has sought to present a new perspective on the origins of empire through the story of the arrival of the first English ambassador in India, Sir Thomas Roe, in the early 17th century.

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Published date : 02 Nov 2023 05:27PM