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William Dalrymple, White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India Quotes: India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly seduces, assimilates and transforms them.
         

India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly seduces, assimilates and transforms them.


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