Sir Thomas Roe and the Mughal Empire

In September 1615, Sir Thomas Roe stepped off the Lion at the Indian port of Surat and began his four-year appointment as England's first ambassador to the court of the Great Mughal. Roe's perceptions and observations of Mughal India, cornerstones to early modern Indian historiography, are...

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Main Author: Mitchell, Colin Paul
Other Authors: Colin Paul Mitchell
Language:Undetermined
English
Published: Karachi Area Study Centre for Europe 2000
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Institutions: Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh
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Summary:In September 1615, Sir Thomas Roe stepped off the Lion at the Indian port of Surat and began his four-year appointment as England's first ambassador to the court of the Great Mughal. Roe's perceptions and observations of Mughal India, cornerstones to early modern Indian historiography, are examined here from the perspective of seventeenth century Jacobean values and means of expression
Physical Description:xxi, 258 p.
23 cm
ISBN:9698551018
9789698551018