Book description
From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize-shortlisted 'Return of a King', the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time.
James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of Hyderabad when he met…
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1 author picked White Mughals as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Dalrymple's wonderful book is a saga of the enduring love affair – cultural, aesthetic, imaginative – that a certain kind of Briton enjoyed with India.
At the heart of it, though, lies the tragic figure of Khair un-Nissa, a Mughal princess who won the heart and soul of James Kirkpatrick, the resident at Hyderabad, and bore him two children, yet whose life in dissipated European society after his early death is symbolic of female vulnerability in empire.
She died, aged twenty-seven, in 1813.
From Stephen's list on about women and the British empire.
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