Discover the winner of the 2023 British Academy Book Prize, Nandini Das, and her remarkable work 'Courting India,' unraveling the story of Britain and India's origins
Author Nandini Das is named the winner of the 2023 British Academy Book Prize for her book "Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire."
As a Professor in the English faculty at the University of Oxford, the 49-year-old 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