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

by Siobhan Lambert-Hurley and Nawab Sikandar Begum

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0253220033

ISBN13:9780253220035

Release Date:May 2008

Publisher:Indiana University Press

Length:250 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.6" x 8.3"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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