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White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India
White Mughals Love and Betrayal in EighteenthCentury India
Author: William Dalrymple
From the early sixteenth century, it was common for British colonizers in India to embarrass the Crown by "turning Turk" or "going native." Few caused greater scandal than James Kirkpatrick, a British resident in the Court of Hyderabad, who converted to Islam and spied on the East India Company in the midst of an affair with Khair un-Nissa, the ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780143030461
ISBN-10: 0143030469
Publication Date: 2004
Pages: 624
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Publisher: Penguin, India
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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ukulady avatar reviewed White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India on + 91 more book reviews
It took me awhile to get interested in this, but once it took off for me, I couldn't put it down. A very different description of the Colonial British then I am used to hearing.


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