White Mughals

WHite Mughals is a history book by WIlliam Dalrymple published in 2002 (2011 in Indonesia). White Mughals book is a work of social history about the warm relations that existed between the British and some Indians in the 18th and early 19th century, when one in three British men in India was married to an Indian woman.

At the heart of White Mughals is the story of a love affair which saw a British dignitary, the East India Company resident of Hyderabad, Captain James Achilles Kirkpatrick, convert to Islam and marry Khair-un-Nissa, a Hyderabadi noblewoman of royal Persian descent. As the British resident of Hyderabad, Kirkpatrick is shown to balance the requirements of his employers, the East India Company, with his sympathetic attitude to the Nizam of Hyderabad.

Left : Captain James Achilles Kirkpatrick. Right : Khair-un-Nissa

Found this White Mughals book at Bookland (Mataram Mall second floor) yesterday night. Price Rp.87.600,- disc 10% for Bookland members only. Pages 460. Can’t wait for read. Happy reading!!!

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