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

by Siobhan Lambert-Hurley

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 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780253220035
Publisher:	Indiana University Press (Ips)
Publication date:	05/01/2008
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

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.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments
An Introduction to Nawab Sikander Begum's Account of Hajj, by Siobhan Lambert-Hurley
A Pilgrimage to Mecca: The Nawab Sikandar Begum of Bhopal
Preface
Translator's Preface
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Appendices
Afterword: Muslim Women Write Their Journeys Abroad, by Siobhan Lambert-Hurley
Bibliography

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"This is a must—read for students of gender, imperial, post/colonial, and Middle Eastern histories."

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"Readers interested in a very wide range of subjects, including Indian history, Muslim women, and Islam in the colonial period, will welcome this book."

Editorial Reviews

". . . this book - with its excellent introduction and afterword - should be celebrated by historians studying the Indian Ocean basin, the history of Islam, travel writing and women's history."—Brett Bennett, University of Texas, Austin, JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES, Vol. 48.3

"This is a must—read for students of gender, imperial, post/colonial, and Middle Eastern histories."—Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois

"Readers interested in a very wide range of subjects, including Indian history, Muslim women, and Islam in the colonial period, will welcome this book."—Barbara D. Metcalf, University of Michigan

From the Publisher

. . . this book - with its excellent introduction and afterword - should be celebrated by historians studying the Indian Ocean basin, the history of Islam, travel writing and women's history.

JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES - Brett Bennett

. . . this book - with its excellent introduction and afterword - should be celebrated by historians studying the Indian Ocean basin, the history of Islam, travel writing and women's history.

JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES - Brett Bennett]]>

"Readers interested in a very wide range of subjects, including Indian history, Muslim women, and Islam in the colonial period, will welcome this book." —Barbara D. Metcalf, University of Michigan

Barbara D. Metcalf

"This is a must—read for students of gender, imperial, post/colonial, and Middle Eastern histories." —Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois

Antoinette Burton

"... this book - with its excellent introduction and afterword - should be celebrated by historians studying the Indian Ocean basin, the history of Islam, travel writing and women's history." —Brett Bennett, University of Texas, Austin, JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES, Vol. 48.3

— Brett Bennett, University of Texas, Austin

Journal of British Studies

. . . this book - with its excellent introduction and afterword - should be celebrated by historians studying the Indian Ocean basin, the history of Islam, travel writing and women's history.Vol. 48.3

University of Texas, Austin - Brett Bennett