White Mughals : love and betrayal in the eighteenth-century India /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Dalrymple, William 1965- (συγγραφέας.)
• Μορφή: Βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : HarperCollins, 2002.
• Θέματα: Kirkpatrick, James Achilles > 1764-1805; Ινδία > Ιστορία > 18ος αιώνας; Ινδία > Κοινωνική ζωή και έθιμα

 From the early sixteenth century, it was common for British colonizers in India to embarrass the Crown by "turning Turk" or "going native." Few caused greater scandal than James Kirkpatrick, a British resident in the Court of Hyderabad, who converted to Islam and spied on the East India Company in the midst of an affair with Khair un-Nissa, the great-niece of the region's prime minister. White Moguls is rich with many eccentric characters, from "Hindoo Stuart," who traveled with his own team of Brahmins, to Alexander Gardner, an American whose self-invented costume was showcased by a tartan turban with egret plumes. A remarkable love story set in an exotic and previously unexplored world, White Moguls is full of secrets, intrigue, espionage, and religious dispute.