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Return of a King. In the spring of 1839, the British invaded Afghanistan for the first time. Led by lancers in scarlet cloaks and plumed shakos, nearly 20,000 British and East India Company troops poured through the passes and re-established on the throne Shah Shuja ul-Mulk. On the way in, the British faced little resistance.
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William Dalrymple is one of Britain’s most successful travel writers, whose highly entertaining books elegantly combine scholarship and story-telling, trans-cultural investigations and romance. With his most recent books - the best-selling White Mughals (2002) and the lavishly praised The Last Mughal (2006) - he has become an authoritative ...
William Dalrymple s'est fait connaître par ses travaux sur l' Inde, le Pakistan, le Moyen-Orient, le monde musulman et les premiers chrétiens d'Orient. Il s'est tout particulièrement spécialisé dans l'histoire des Indes britanniques. Ses travaux sur la révolte des Cipayes de 1857, qui ont donné lieu à la publication du Dernier Moghol se ...
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company is a 2019 history book by William Dalrymple.It recounts the rise of the East India Company in the second half of the 18th century, against the backdrop of a crumbling Mughal Empire and the rise of regional powers.
Synopsis. Set in and around Hyderabad at the beginning of the nineteenth century, White Mughals tells the story of the improbably romantic love affair and marriage between James Achilles Kirkpatrick, a rising star in the East India Company, and Khair-un-Nisa, a Hyderabadi princess. Pursuing Kirkpatrick's passionate affair through the archives ...
