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Buy White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-century India First Edition by Dalrymple, William (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low Reviews: 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 Cited by: In 'White Mughals', William Dalrymple discovers a world almost entirely unexplored by history, and places at its centre a compelling tale of seduction and betrayal. What people are saying - Write a review. User ratings. White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India4/5(11).

Love and Betrayal in India: The White Mughal Historian William Dalrymple travels to Hyderabad in India to explore the remarkable 18th-century love affair between a British diplomat and the Muslim. William Dalrymple's White Mughals is destined to become one of the great non-fictional classics of Anglo-Indian history. Dalrymple is steeped in India, having lived there for six years, and written a series of remarkable travel books chronicling its past and present, including City of Djinns and The Age of bltadwin.ru already earned comparisons with great travel writers like Chatwin and. Conjuring all the sweep of a great nineteenth-century novel, acclaimed author William Dalrymple unearths the fascinating story of the British Resident at the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad, James Kirkpatrick, who in fell in love with the great-niece of the Hyderabadi prime minister.

Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India. William Dalrymple. Penguin, - Fiction - pages. 14 Reviews. White Mughals is the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate. 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 dreams of Napoleon. Superbly crafted like Persian calligraphy, the story takes us trough the love story between James A. Kirkpatrick, the British Resident stationed in the Hyderabad Court, and Khair un-Nissa, the uniquely beautiful daughter of a noble Persian-Indian family. Dalrymple leads us in a magical tour of Mughal Hyderabad, in the center of India and in a sense in the center of that brief hybrid world of British Indian relations of mutual understanding and respect.