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India-born author Nandini Das won 2023 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, a leading international non-fiction prize worth GBP 25,000, for her book Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire'.
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