by William Dalrymple · Penguin Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780142004128
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«White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India» is the historical essay by William Dalrymple (Penguin Books, paperback, 544 pages, in English).
The book reconstructs the true story of James Achilles Kirkpatrick, British resident in Hyderabad, and his romance with the noblewoman Khair un-Nissa. Kirkpatrick converted to Islam and, according to Indian sources, was a double agent against the East India Company, in the world of the «White Mughals», Europeans who adopted Indian customs.
Winner of the Wolfson History Prize in 2003 and nominated for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman and the Kiriyama Prize. The original edition was published in 2002; this Penguin Books edition is from 2004.
For readers of Indian history, colonialism and narrative nonfiction.
William Benedict Hamilton-Dalrymple is a Scottish historian, art historian, indologist, curator, broadcaster, critic and author.
