WHITE MUGHALS
Love & Betrayal in 18th Century Indian
LECTURE BY WILLIAM DALRYMPLE
640 pages (7th October 2002). £15.99
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Thursday 10 October 2002,
6.30-7.30pm
(Book-signing 5.45-6.15pm)
The Royal Institution, 21 Albemarle Street, Mayfair, London W1
Tickets £7, Concessions £4
Tel: 020 7499 1287

To mark the launch of his new book, prize-winning author William Dalrymple has been invited by Asia House to give a lecture to discuss this new work White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in 18th Century India.

White Mughals is the product of five year's research and writing and it is set to confirm William Dalrymple as one of the finest writers of his generation.

The book is a fascinating tale of a love affair that crossed all cultural, religious and political boundaries. Dalrymple describes 18th century India beautifully and in great detail thus offering much insight to little known aspects of this period.

James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad from 1797 to 1805. Kirkpatrick went to India as an ambitious soldier in the army of the East India Company, eager to make his name in the conquest and subjugation of the continent. Instead, it was he who was conquered when he fell in love with Khair un-Nissa, great niece of Nizam¹s Prime Minister, and a direct descendant of the Prophet.

William Dalrymple wrote the highly acclaimed bestseller In Xanadu when he was twenty-two. The book won the 1990 Yorkshire Post Best First Work Award and a Scottish Arts Council Spring Book Award. In 1989 Dalrymple moved to Delhi where he lived for four years researching his second book, City of Djinns, which won the 1994 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award. He continued to win awards for his further titles such as From the Holy Mountain and for his television series Indian Journeys.

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