White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India

Title: White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India
Author: William Dalrymple
E: 1701250
ISBN: 9780670031849
Publisher: Viking Pr
Published: 2003
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 400
Section: History | Asia | South - General
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: 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 great-niece of the region's prime minister.
"White Moguls" is rich with many eccentric characters, from "Hindoo Stuart," who traveled with his own team of Brahmins, to Alexander Gardner, an American whose self-invented costume was showcased by a tartan turban with egret plumes. A remarkable love story set in an exotic and previously unexplored world, "White Moguls" is full of secrets, intrigue, espionage, and religious disputes and conjures all the resonance of a great nineteenth-century novel.