ISBN: | 9789351184553 |
Publisher: | Penguin |
Published: | 22 January, 2004 |
Format: | ePub |
James Achilles Kirkpatrick landed on the shores of eighteenth-century India as an ambitious soldier of the East India Company. Although eager to make his name in the subjection of a nation, it was he who was conquered-not by an army but by a Muslim Indian princess. Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad when in 1798 he glimpsed Khair un-Nissa-'Most Excellent among Women'-the great-niece of the Nizam's Prime Minister. He fell in love with Khair, and overcame m
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