In the long eighteenth century, artists from Udaipur, a city of lakes in northwestern India, specialized in depicting the vivid sensory ambience of its historic palaces, reservoirs, temples, bazaars, and durbars. As Mughal imperial authority weakened by the late 1600s and the British colonial economy became paramount by the 1830s, new patrons and mobile professionals reshaped u...(展开全部)

曼素恩获密歇根大学文学士学位、斯坦福大学哲学博士学位。现任戴维斯加州大学历史学教授兼历史系主任。1999―2000年任亚洲研究会主任。其第二部著作《缀珍录》曾获亚洲研究会Levenson（利文森）奖。另与程玉溪联合主编了忡国历史上的性别书写》（伯克利：加利福尼亚大学出版社，2001）、目前正在撰写《张家才女外传》。

Conjuring all the sweep of a great nineteenth-century novel, acclaimed author William Dalrymple unearths the fascinating story of the British Resident at the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad, James Kirkpatrick, who in 1798 fell in love with the great-niece of the Hyderabadi prime minister. To marry her, Kirkpatrick converted to Islam and even became a double agent working agains...(展开全部)

著有《仙那度》（In Xanadu）、《精灵之城》（City of Djinns）、《圣山来客》（From the Holy Mountain）、《迦梨时代》(The Age of Kali)、《白莫卧儿人》（White Mughals）、《最后的莫卧儿人》（The Last Mughal）以及最新出版的《九种人生》（Nine Lives）。他曾获汤玛斯·库克旅游文学奖(Thomas Cook Travel Book Award)、《星期日泰晤士报》年度英国年轻作家奖(Young British Writer of the Year Award)、法国星盘图书奖(French Prix d’Astrolabe)、沃尔夫森历史奖(Wolfson Prize for History)、苏格兰年度图书大奖(Scottish Book of the Year...(展开全部)

Conjuring all the sweep of a great nineteenth-century novel, acclaimed author William Dalrymple unearths the fascinating story of the British Resident at the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad, James Kirkpatrick, who in 1798 fell in love with the great-niece of the Hyderabadi prime minister. To marry her, Kirkpatrick converted to Islam and even became a double agent working agains...(展开全部)

'Dalrymple's India is as vivid as Naipaul's' Simon Jenkins, The Times White Mughals is the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time. James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of Hyderabad when he met Khair un-Nissa -- 'Most Excellent among Women' -- ...(展开全部)

Conjuring all the sweep of a great nineteenth-century novel, acclaimed author William Dalrymple unearths the fascinating story of the British Resident at the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad, James Kirkpatrick, who in 1798 fell in love with the great-niece of the Hyderabadi prime minister. To marry her, Kirkpatrick converted to Islam and even became a double agent working agains...(展开全部)

'Dalrymple's India is as vivid as Naipaul's' Simon Jenkins, The Times White Mughals is the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time. James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of Hyderabad when he met Khair un-Nissa -- 'Most Excellent among Women' -- ...(展开全部)

Conjuring all the sweep of a great nineteenth-century novel, acclaimed author William Dalrymple unearths the fascinating story of the British Resident at the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad, James Kirkpatrick, who in 1798 fell in love with the great-niece of the Hyderabadi prime minister. To marry her, Kirkpatrick converted to Islam and even became a double agent working agains...(展开全部)

著有《仙那度》（In Xanadu）、《精灵之城》（City of Djinns）、《圣山来客》（From the Holy Mountain）、《迦梨时代》(The Age of Kali)、《白莫卧儿人》（White Mughals）、《最后的莫卧儿人》（The Last Mughal）以及最新出版的《九种人生》（Nine Lives）。他曾获汤玛斯·库克旅游文学奖(Thomas Cook Travel Book Award)、《星期日泰晤士报》年度英国年轻作家奖(Young British Writer of the Year Award)、法国星盘图书奖(French Prix d’Astrolabe)、沃尔夫森历史奖(Wolfson Prize for History)、苏格兰年度图书大奖(Scottish Book of the Year...(展开全部)