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White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India
by William Dalrymple
This was a good book. I really learned a lot although the text was dense and took a long time to get through. The early years of the British Empire seem to be much more syncretic as a society than the later years when economic level and caste would matter much more than position.
This book focuses on the Kirkpatrick family and whether or not it would have been possible to convert to Islam and marry into the Mughal ruling families. Dalrymple went through many family archival records to do his research so the book reads as a history book rather than something written for the general population. If you pick this up you will learn something.
This book focuses on the Kirkpatrick family and whether or not it would have been possible to convert to Islam and marry into the Mughal ruling families. Dalrymple went through many family archival records to do his research so the book reads as a history book rather than something written for the general population. If you pick this up you will learn something.