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

• Main Author: Dalrymple, William 1965- (συγγραφέας.)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London : HarperCollins, 2002.
• Subjects: 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 Eas...