TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dalrymple, William.
TI  - White Mughals: love and betrayal in eighteenth-century India 
SN  - 0006550967
AV  - DS428 .D33 2004
U1  - 954 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - London
PB  - Harper Perennial
KW  - Kirkpatrick, James Achilles,
KW  - British
KW  - India
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - 19th century
N1  - Originally published: London: HarperCollins, 2002; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of Hyderabad when he met Khair un-Nissa - `Most Excellent among Women' - the great-niece of the Prime Minister of Hyderabad. He fell in love with her and overcame many obstacles to marry her, converting to Islam and, according to Indian sources, becoming a double-agent working against the East India Company.


It is a remarkable story, but such things were not unknown: from the early sixteenth century to the eve of the Indian Mutiny, the `white Mughals' who wore local dress and adopted Indian ways were a source of embarrassment to successive colonial administrations. Dalrymple unearths such colourful figures as `Hindoo Stuart', who travelled with his own team of Brahmins to maintain his temple of idols, and Sir David Auchterlony, who took all 13 of his Indian wives out for evening promenades, each on the back of her own elephant.


In `White Mughals', William Dalrymple discovers a world almost entirely unexplored by history, and places at its centre a compelling tale of seduction and betrayal
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