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White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India

William Dalrymple

Why we're reading this: Absorbing, empathic treatment of a brief but important era before the British Raj.
[close] Absorbing, empathic treatment of a brief but important era before the British Raj.

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Jan 10, 2009 Claire S rated it liked it

Shelves: g_india-and, global, historical, indexia, war-mltry-conflt-occ, women, fin-econ, id-constructs-race-gender, pol-historical, novel

I 'liked' this book in the sense that I know a huge amount of research went in to it, and I appreciate that and am glad I read it. But I disliked intensely some aspects of this book. In particular, what I find to be troubling is the way the various cultures are portrayed. I have to get my copy back out and will probably add to this then. But generally I have very mixed feelings about this one. ...more

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Aug 19, 2007 DoctorM rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: history-and-historiography, out-in-the-colonies

A well-crafted and melancholy account of a brief moment where it was still just possible for Englishmen and Indians to participate in a hybrid culture, and where the East India Company's soldiers and officials were conquerors in an older sense--- like the various Central Asian dynasties that had seized power in India and then embraced much of its culture ---and not yet the post-1857 colonialists obsessed with maintaining rule along racial lines. ...more

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