Getting back to my reading, correcting a recent lapse. Trudged a good way through the “Courting India” by Nandini Das, but I am on the verge of dropping it. The book is about the first British Embassy in India — at the Mughals. It is a topic I typically would be very intrigued in, — the main reason to pick up the book. (In addition, there was a personal recommendation and the fact it had been shortlisted for The Wolfson Prize). In any case, I found it less exciting than I expected. Perhaps I find Thomas Roe, a dull character — there are a lot of missed and misinterpreted signals, but overall it is fairly academic, also Das does seem to share my low opinion of Mr. Roe.
Any related books on “first contact”?