Thomas Roe and the origins of empire
New Generation Thinker Nandini Das explores the faltering attempts of Elizabethan merchant-diplomat Sir Thomas Roe to forge a relationship with Mughal emperor Jahangir.
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ New Generation Thinker Nandini Das explores the faltering attempts of the Elizabethan merchant-diplomat Sir Thomas Roe to forge a relationship with the Mughal Emperor Jahangir, and suggests that this should make us rethink our view of Empire as a monolithic story of British pomp and power.
Contributors: Lisa Honan CBE, former diplomat and Governor of St Helena, and now the leader of tours exploring the history of the East India Company in the City of London.
Dr Edmond Smith, early modern historian at the University of Manchester.
For more on Thomas Roe in India, see Nandini Das's book Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire (2023).
Producer: Eliane Glaser
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