Nandini Das has won the 2023 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding.
India-born author Nandini Das has won this prize for her book ‘Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire’.
The winning book is her debut. Critics have described it as the “true origin story of Britain and India told through England’s first diplomatic mission to the Mughal courts”.
Nandini Das is a Professor of English literature at the University of Oxford.
In the book, Das presents a new perspective on the origins of the empire through the story of the arrival of Sir Thomas Roe in the early 17th century.
Sir Thomas Roe was the first English ambassador in India.
