Tag: White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India

William Dalrymple  In the eighteenth century, when the East India company was not yet the force it would one day be, there existed a few Englishmen (and other Europeans) who took up the ways of the fading Mughal culture. These were the White Mughals and among them was James Achilles Kirkpatrick, who arrived in India […]