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OCLC. 55121980. Preceded by. The Age of Kali. Followed by. Begums Thugs And White Mughals. White Mughals is a 2002 history book by William Dalrymple. It is Dalrymple's fifth major book, and tells the true story of a love affair that took place in early nineteenth century Hyderabad between James Achilles Kirkpatrick and Khair-un-Nissa Begum.
- William Dalrymple
- 2002
White Mughals is another stunning piece of erudition, this time reconstructing the romance between an 18th-century British general and a Muslim princess in colonial India. In the five-year process of researching and writing it, Dalrymple managed to debunk the Victorian notion of a subcontinent strictly bisected into the rulers and the ruled.
27 de abr. de 2004 · In White Mughals, William Dalrymple discovers a world almost entirely unexplored by history, and places at its centre a compelling tale of love, seduction and betrayal. It possesses all the sweep and resonance of a great nineteenth-century novel, set against a background of shifting alliances and the manoeuvring of the great powers, the mercantile ambitions of the British and the imperial ...
- William Dalrymple
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23 de nov. de 2022 · White Mughals : love and betrayal in eighteenth-century India by Dalrymple, William. Publication date 2002 Topics Kirkpatrick, James Achilles, 1764-1805 ...
White Mughals, the product of five years’ writing and research, triumphantly confirms Dalrymple’s reputation as one of the finest writers at work today. About White Mughals White Mughals is the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that crossed and transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time.
27 de abr. de 2004 · White Mughals is the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that crossed and transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time.James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad when in 1798 he glimpsed Kahir un-Nissa—'Most excellent among Women'—the great-niece of the Nizam's Prime Minister and a ...
