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A Princess's Pilgrimage: Nawab Sikandar Begum's a Pilgrimage to Mecca

A Princess's Pilgrimage: Nawab Sikandar Begum's a Pilgrimage to Mecca

Lambert-Hurley, Siobhan

Paperback

Travel WritingGeneral Middle EastIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 0253220033
ISBN13: 9780253220035
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: May 1 2008
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.62 Width: 5.59 Depth: 8.31
Language: English

In 1863, the Nawab Sikandar Begum, a Muslim woman and hereditary ruler of the princely state of Bhopal in colonial India, traveled to Mecca with a retinue of a thousand people. On returning, she wrote this witty, acerbic account of her journey. In it, we glimpse a process by which notions of the self could be redefined against a Muslim other in the colonial environment. Sikandar Begum emerges as a genuinely complex individual, crafting an image of herself as an effective administrator, a loyal subject, and a good Muslim. Siobhan Lambert-Hurley's critical introduction and afterword make this edition a comprehensive resource on travel writing by South Asian Muslim women, colonialism, and world history.

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