![]() The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company, on the other hand, concentrates on how the Company became a colonial power through force of arms. ![]() White Mughals told of the EIC employees’ adoption – sometimes complete – of Indian customs at its heart was the love story between the British Resident at Hyderabad and a beautiful young Mughal princess. This time, he tackles it from a far less sympathetic standpoint. ![]() Since then, Dalrymple has written more Mughal-related books, but only now has he returned to the story of the East India Company. ![]() William Dalrymple is probably best known for White Mughals (2002), a social history of East India Company grandees, with its emphasis on the warm relationships, often sexual (one in three British men was married to an Indian woman and many more had concubines), between those early merchants and the people they traded with. ![]()
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