A Princess's Pilgrimage

ISBN 10: 0253220033 / ISBN 13: 9780253220035

Published by INDIANA UNIV PR, 2008

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Neuware - 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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Princess's Pilgrimage
• Publisher: INDIANA UNIV PR
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0253220033
• ISBN 13: 9780253220035
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 211W x 142H x 16D millimeters 211 millimeters width by 142 millimeters height by 16 millimeters depth
• Weight: 345 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Siobhan Lambert-Hurley is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Nottingham Trent University, UK. She is author of Muslim Women, Reform and Princely Patronage: Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam of Bhopal and Rhetoric and Reality: Gender and the Colonial Experience in South Asia.