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{{Infobox book
| name = White Mughals
| title_orig =
| translator =
| image = White Mughals.jpg
| caption =
| author = [[William Dalrymple (historian)|William Dalrymple]]
| illustrator =
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| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| series =
| subject = [[Narrative history]]
| genre =
| publisher = Penguin Books
| pub_date = 29 March 2002
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| media_type = Print ([[Hardcover]], [[Paperback]])
| pages = 512 pp (Paperback edition)
| isbn = 0-14-200412-X
| oclc= 55121980
| preceded_by = [[The Age of Kali]]
| followed_by = [[Begums Thugs And White Mughals]]
}}

'''''White Mughals''''' is a 2002 history book by [[William Dalrymple (historian)|William Dalrymple]].

It is Dalrymple's fifth major book, and tells the true story of a love affair that took place in early nineteenth century Hyderabad between [[James Achilles Kirkpatrick]] and Khair-un-Nissa Begum.

==Summary==
The book is a work of social history about the warm relations that existed between the British and some Indians in the 18th and early 19th century, when one in three British men in India was married to an Indian woman. It documents the inter-ethnic liaisons between British officers, such as [[Charles Stuart (East India Company officer)|Charles "Hindoo" Stuart]], and Indian women, and the geopolitical context of late 18th century India. Like ''[[From the Holy Mountain]]'', it also examines the interactions of Christianity and Islam, emphasizing the surprisingly porous relationship between the two in pre-modern times.

At the heart of ''White Mughals'' is the story of affair which saw a British dignitary, the [[British East India Company|East India Company]] [[Resident (title)|Resident]] in [[Hyderabad (India)|Hyderabad]], [[James Achilles Kirkpatrick|Captain James Achilles Kirkpatrick]], convert to [[Islam]] and marry Khair-un-Nissa, a Hyderabadi noblewoman of royal [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] descent. As the British Resident in Hyderabad, Kirkpatrick is shown to balance the requirements of his employers, the [[East India Company]], with his sympathetic attitude to the [[Nizam of Hyderabad]].

The very title of ''White Mughals'' indicates its subject: the late 18th- and early 19th-century period in India, where there had been ‘a succession of unexpected and unplanned minglings of peoples and cultures and ideas’. On one level, the book tells the tragic love story of James Kirkpatrick, ‘the thoroughly orientalised’ British Resident in Hyderabad and Khair, a beautiful young Muslim noblewoman. On another level, the story is about trade, military and political dealings, based on Dalrymple’s researches among letters, diaries, reports, and dispatches (much of it in cipher). Out of these sources he draws a fascinating picture of sexual attitudes and social etiquette, finding an "increasingly racist and dismissive attitude" among both Europeans and Indians towards mixed race offspring after the rise of Evangelical Christianity. He paces the gradual revelations with a novelist's skills, leading us on, after the death of Kirkpatrick, to "the saddest and most tragic part of the whole story". The doomed lovers actually engender an optimistic coda, when their two children move to Britain. The daughter [[Kitty Kirkpatrick|Kitty]] becomes a friend and muse of Scottish writer and philosopher [[Thomas Carlyle]], and re-establishes contact with her grandmother in India through [[Sir Henry Russell, 1st Baronet|Henry Russell]].

==Popular culture==
In August 2011, William Dalrymple announced that [[Ralph Fiennes]] would direct and star in the movie version of ''White Mughals''.<ref>{{cite news|title=William Dalrymple: If I had five more lives, I’d live them all in India|url=http://gulfnews.com/life-style/people/william-dalrymple-if-i-had-five-more-lives-i-d-live-them-all-in-india-1.1152542|newspaper=[[Gulf News]]|last=Raj|first=Anand|date=1 March 2013|accessdate=24 July 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Lord Voldemort to direct The White Mughals?|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/lord-voldemort-to-direct-the-white-mughals-/827019/|newspaper=[[The Indian Express]]|date=4 August 2011|accessdate=24 July 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=In pursuit of a king|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130120/jsp/graphiti/story_16461036.jsp|newspaper=[[The Telegraph (Calcutta)]]|date=20 January 2013|accessdate=24 July 2013}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Claude Martin]]
*[[Antoine Polier]]
*[[Anglo-Indian]]

==References==
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[[Category:Books by William Dalrymple]]
[[Category:2002 non-fiction books]]
[[Category:21st-century history books]]
[[Category:History books about the British Empire]]
[[Category:History books about India]]
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