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Across oceans and centuries, England and India emerge not as distant worlds but as entangled histories of movement, trade and imagination. Drawing on rich archival fragments, Nandini Das traces merchants, migrants, sailors and spies who moved between Tudor and Stuart England and India, unsettling ideas of nation, identity and belonging. Together with Festival Co-Director and Author William Dalrymple, they evaluate the encounter and exchanges that reshapes our understanding of an interconnected world.
Nandini Das is Professor of Early Modern English Literature and Culture and a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford University. Her most recent book, Courting India: England, Mughal India, and the Origins of Empire, was longlisted for the Cundill Prize, shortlisted for the Duff Cooper and Wolfson History Prizes, and won the British Academy Book Prize. It was also named a Book of the Year by The Spectator, Prospect, and History Today. A BBC New Generation Thinker, she regularly contributes to and presents television and radio programmes, including Tales of Tudor Travel on BBC Four.
William Dalrymple is the author of the Wolfson Prize-winning White Mughals, Duff Cooper Prize-winning The Last Mughal, and the Hemingway and Kapuscinski Prize-winning Return of a King. His book, The Anarchy, was shortlisted for the Duke of Wellington medal, the Tata Book of the Year, and the Historical Writers Association Award, and won the 2020 Arthur Ross Medal from the US Council on Foreign Relations. Dalrymple has held visiting lectureships at Princeton, Brown, and Oxford, where he is currently a Visiting Fellow at All Souls. He was presented with the President’s Medal by the British Academy and was named one of the world’s top 50 thinkers for 2020 by Prospect Magazine. He is a founder and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival. His latest book is The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed The World.
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Across oceans and centuries, England and India emerge not as distant worlds but as entangled histories of movement, trade and imagination. Drawing on rich archival fragments, Nandini Das traces merchants, migrants, sailors and spies who moved between Tudor and Stuart England and India, unsettling ideas of nation, identity and belonging. Together with Festival Co-Director and Author William Dalrymple, they evaluate the encounter and exchanges that reshapes our understanding of an interconnected world.
Nandini Das is Professor of Early Modern English Literature and Culture and a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford University. Her most recent book, Courting India: England, Mughal India, and the Origins of Empire, was longlisted for the Cundill Prize, shortlisted for the Duff Cooper and Wolfson History Prizes, and won the British Academy Book Prize. It was also named a Book of the Year by The Spectator, Prospect, and History Today. A BBC New Generation Thinker, she regularly contributes to and presents television and radio programmes, including Tales of Tudor Travel on BBC Four.
William Dalrymple is the author of the Wolfson Prize-winning White Mughals, Duff Cooper Prize-winning The Last Mughal, and the Hemingway and Kapuscinski Prize-winning Return of a King. His book, The Anarchy, was shortlisted for the Duke of Wellington medal, the Tata Book of the Year, and the Historical Writers Association Award, and won the 2020 Arthur Ross Medal from the US Council on Foreign Relations. Dalrymple has held visiting lectureships at Princeton, Brown, and Oxford, where he is currently a Visiting Fellow at All Souls. He was presented with the President’s Medal by the British Academy and was named one of the world’s top 50 thinkers for 2020 by Prospect Magazine. He is a founder and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival. His latest book is The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed The World.
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