Meeting the Mughals: England’s disastrous first embassy to India
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A Brief History of the Indian Empire, Sir Thomas Rowe
Sir Thomas Rowe was ambassador to India in the early 17th century. He is a member of parliament during the long and fraught kind of political troublemaking between James I and his parliaments. His character perhaps doesn't seem to have the best attributes for diplomacy, writes Riannon Gwynne.
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