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Podcast: The Cosmopolitan
Episode: Meeting the Mughals: England’s disastrous first embassy to India
Description: Podcast: HistoryExtra podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Meeting the Mughals: England’s disastrous first embassy to IndiaPub date: 2023-03-06Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn 1616, when the first English embassy was installed in Mughal India, England was a minor player on the global stage rather than a leading actor. Nandini Das explores what the challenges of this embassy can tell us about England’s unequal relationship with India at the time – and reveals how the future dominance of the British empire wa...