Courting IndiaWINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE A profound and ground breaking new history of one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism: the British arrival in India in the early seventeenth century. A triumph of writing and scholarship. It is hard to imagine anyone ever bettering Das's account of this part of the story William Dalrymple, Financial Times A fascinating glimpse of the origins of the British Empire . . . drawn in