News Excerpt:
‘Courting India’ by Nandini Das has won the 2023 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding.
About British Academy Book Prize:
- The British Academy Book Prize, formally known as the Nayef Al Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, was launched in 2013 in partnership with Professor Nayef Al-Rodhan with the aim of establishing a significant force in global publishing and prize giving.
- Since then, the prize has recognised a distinguished array of shortlisted authors and eventual winners.
- Their work explores many different aspects of global cultural understanding and combines original academic enquiry with engaging story-telling to reach the broadest possible public audience.
- The Prize, worth £25,000 is awarded annually to the best eligible non-fiction book.
About “Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire”-
The book ‘Courting India’ explores the complex relationship between England and Mughal India in the early modern period, focusing on the cultural and literary exchanges that took place between these two worlds.
