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SUMMARY:Nandini Das: Courting India - England\, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire
DESCRIPTION:  \nCourting India: England\, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire: Nandini Das: Bloomsbury Publishing \nWINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE\nA SPECTATOR\, WATERSTONES\, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE\, PROSPECT AND HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEAR \nA 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. \n‘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 \n‘A fascinating glimpse of the origins of the British Empire . . . drawn in dazzling technicolour‘ – Spectator \n‘Beautifully written and masterfully researched\, this has the makings of a classic’ – Peter Frankopan \nLONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE\nSHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA CROWN AWARDS \nWhen Thomas Roe arrived in India in 1616 as James I’s first ambassador to the Mughal Empire\, the English barely had a toehold in the subcontinent. Their understanding of South Asian trade and India was sketchy at best\, and\, to the Mughals\, they were minor players on a very large stage. Roe was representing a kingdom that was beset by financial woes and deeply conflicted about its identity as a unified ‘Great Britain’ under the Stuart monarchy. Meanwhile\, the court he entered in India was wealthy and cultured\, its dominion widely considered to be one of the greatest and richest empires of the world. \nIn Nandini Das’s fascinating history of Roe’s four years in India\, she offers an insider’s view of a Britain in the making\, a country whose imperial seeds were just being sown. It is a story of palace intrigue and scandal\, lotteries and wagers that unfolds as global trade begins to stretch from Russia to Virginia\, from West Africa to the Spice Islands of Indonesia. \nA major debut that explores the art\, literature\, sights and sounds of Jacobean London and Imperial India\, Courting India reveals Thomas Roe’s time in the Mughal Empire to be a turning point in history – and offers a rich and radical challenge to our understanding of Britain and its early empire.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/nandini-das-courting-india/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture Series 2023 - 24
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SUMMARY:Dr Neil Schmid (Dunhuang Academy) King of Kings: Vestiges of Sasanian Sacral Kingship in 10th Century Dunhuang
DESCRIPTION:  \nDating from the fifth to the fourteenth century\, the Mogao Caves near the oasis of Dunhuang in northwestern China contain a wealth of information charting the flows and interactions of diverse cultures across Eurasia. Donor portraits in particular furnish a remarkable range of data on the ethnicity\, interregional relations\, politics\, and the social and religious status of the caves’ patrons. Of the thousands of donor portraits painted on the walls of the Mogao Caves\, one in particular stands out for its size\, meticulously painted details\, and unique iconography\, that in Mogao Cave 98 of Viśa‘ Saṃbhava (Li Shengtian 李聖天)\, the King of Khotan (r. 912–c.966) and ally of the ruling élites of Dunhuang.  Scholars typically consider his royal regalia to be Chinese in origin and style\, and the king the representative of a Buddhist kingdom. However\, a detailed analysis of the portrait demonstrates neither is the case. Instead\, his garb and adjacent symbols reveal a richly coherent network of iconography and accoutrements Iranian in origin and Sasanian at heart\, foregrounding core concepts of divine kingship as predicated on xwarrah\, ‘divine glory.’ Drawing on a wide array of visual and material resources such as sculpture\, metalware\, and numismatic evidence from Iran and Central Asia\, this talk presents for the first time a thoroughly revised analysis of Viśa‘ Saṃbhava’s portrait. I demonstrate how the royal costume and associate ornamental motifs belong to a shared visual culture of imperial legitimacy grounded in symbols of investiture that span a vast geographical and temporal range\, here still very much authoritative during the 10th century in a largely Chinese context. Given our lack of knowledge about non-Buddhist aspects of Khotan\, this portrait and its sacral imagery are invaluable for reevaluating fundamental notions of sovereignty in the Kingdom of Khotan. \n  \nDr. Neil Schmid is Research Professor at the Dunhuang Academy in the Centre for Silk Road and Dunhuang Comparative Research. His research centers on Dunhuang and the Silk Road covering variety of topics: the role of Buddhist literature in ritual and art\, medieval economic development\, esoteric Buddhism\, and transcultural flow of religious objects and ideas across Eurasia. \n  \nTo join over zoom please email Matty Bradley at mb@royalasiaticsociety.org \n 
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/dr-neil-schmid-dunhuang-academy-king-of-kings-vestiges-of-sasanian-sacral-kingship-in-10th-century-dunhuang/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Howes: The Art of a Corporation: The East India Company as Patron and Collector
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/jennifer-howes-the-art-of-a-corporation-the-east-india-company-as-patron-and-collector/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture Series 2023 - 24
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