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A princess's pilgrimage: Nawab Sikandar Begum's a pilgrimage to Mecca [introduction]
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 sel...
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2008
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/2134/15554 |
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