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JAMES ACHILLES KIRKPATRICK LANDED ON THE SHORES OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY INDIA AS AN AMBITIOUS SOLDIER OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY. ALTHOUGH EAGER TO MAKE HIS NAME IN THE SUBJECTION OF A NATION, IT WAS HE WHO WAS CONQUERED-NOT BY AN ARMY BUT BY A MUSLIM INDIAN PRINCESS. KIRKPATRICK WAS THE BRITISH RESIDENT AT THE COURT OF THE NIZAM OF HYDERABAD WHEN IN 1798 HE GLIMPSED KHAIR UN-NISSA- MOST EXCELLENT AMONG WOMEN -THE GREAT-NIECE OF THE NIZAM S PRIME MINISTER. HE FELL IN LOVE WITH KHAIR, AND OVERCAME MANY OBSTACLES TO MARRY HER-NOT LEAST OF WHICH WAS THE FACT THAT SHE WAS LOCKED AWAY IN PURDAH AND ENGAGED TO A LOCAL NOBLEMAN. EVENTUALLY, WHILE REMAINING RESIDENT, KIRKPATRICK CONVERTED TO ISLAM, AND ACCORDING TO INDIAN SOURCES EVEN BECAME A DOUBLE-AGENT WORKING FOR THE HYDERABADIS AGAINST THE EAST INDIA COMPANY. POSSESSING ALL THE SWEEP OF A GREAT NINETEENTH-CENTURY NOVEL, WHITE MUGHALS IS A REMARKABLE TALE OF HAREM POLITICS, SECRET ASSIGNATIONS, COURT INTRIGUE, RELIGIOUS DISPUTES AND ESPIONAGE

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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 Kali. Having already earned comparisons with great travel writers like Chatwin and Theroux, Dalrymple has now produced a meticulously researched and beautifully written historical narrative on one of the most colourful but neglected aspects of British colonial rule in India.

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 across the continents, Dalrymple unveils a fascinating story of intrigue and love that breaches the conventional boundaries of empire. As Kirkpatrick gradually goes native (adopting local clothes and enduring circumcision) he becomes a secret agent working for his wife's royal family against the English, as he tries to balance the interests of both cultures.

However, White Mughals is by no means just an exotic love story. It is a vehicle for Dalrymple's understanding of the complex legacy of the English Empire in India, that he defines more in terms of exchange and negotiation than dominance and subjugation. It is a powerful and moving plea by Dalrymple to understand the cultural intermingling and hybridity that defines both eastern and western cultures, and a convincing rejection of religious intolerance and ethnic essentialism. Elegantly written and at a pace that belies its length, White Mughals confirms Dalrymple's status as one of the most important non-fiction writers of his time. -–Jerry Brotton

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‘William Dalrymple is that rarity, a scholar of history who can really write. This is a brilliant and compulsively readable book’ Salman Rushdie

‘Destined to become an instant classic’ Amanda Foreman

‘A bravura display of scholarship, writing and insight. Dalrymple manages the incredible feat of outpointing most historians and most novelists in one go. This is quite simply a stunning achievement’ Independent on Sunday

‘Gorgeous, spellbinding and important, [a] tapestry of magnificent set-pieces’ Miranda Seymour, Sunday Times

‘Enthralling ... brilliant, as exhaustively researched as it is brilliantly written’ Mail on Sunday

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  • Publication date2004
  • ISBN 10 0143030469
  • ISBN 13 9780143030461
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