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

by Siobhan Lambert-Hurley and Nawab Sikandar Begum

Book Overview

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"