DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRESENTS
‘THE WHITE MUGHAL - LOVE AND
BETRAYAL IN INDIA’
THE ONE HOUR PROGRAMME WILL PREMIERE
ON 28TH MARCH AT 9 PM
Discovery Channel presents the
extraordinary story of the relations that existed between the British and some
Indians in the 18th century in its new programme ‘THE WHITE MUGHAL - LOVE AND
BETRAYAL IN INDIA’. The programme is an emotive description of the book ‘White
Mughals’, written by renowned historian and author William Dalrymple.
Premiering on Monday, March 28 on
Discovery Channel at 9 PM, ‘THE WHITE MUGHAL – LOVE AND BETRAYAL IN INDIA’ will
take viewers to the Deccan Plains of India unearthing the forbidden love
between British diplomat stationed in Hyderabad James Achilles Kirkpatrick who
risked everything, even converting to Islam just to marry his only love, the
Muslim princess of Hyderabad Khair-un-Nissa.
At the turn of the 18th century, one
in three British men in India known as White Mughals lived with Indian women,
married them, wore local dress and adopted Indian ways. To protect their
children from growing disapproval of their mixed race, they sent them to
England for education, ultimately being absorbed into the Victorian society.
