White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India
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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 descendant of the Prophet. Kirkpatrick had gone out
to India as an ambitious soldier in the army of the East India
Company, eager to make his name in the conquest and subjection of
the subcontinent. Instead, 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.It is a
remarkable story, involving secret assignations, court intrigue,
harem politics, religious and family disputes. But such things were
not unknown; from the early sixteenth century, when the Inquisition
banned the Portuguese in Goa from wearing the dhoti, to the eve of
the Indian mutiny, the 'white Mughals' who wore local dress and
adopted Indian ways were a source of embarrassments to successive
colonial administrations. William Dalrymple unearths such colourful
figures as 'Hindoo Stuart', who travelled with his own team of
Brahmins to maintain his temple of idols, and who spent many years
trying to persuade the memsahibs of Calcutta to adopt the sari; and
Sir David Ochterlony, Kirkpatrick's counterpart in Delhi, who took
all thirteen of his wives out for evening promenades, each on the
back of their own elephant.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. White Mughals, the
product of five years' writing and research, triumphantly confirms
Dalrymple's reputation as one of the finest writers at work today.
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