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

Nawab Sikandar Begum

A Princess's Pilgrimage: A Pilgrimage to Mecca

Nawab Sikandar Begum with Siobhan Lambert-Hurley

254 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction essays history travel reflective medium-paced
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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...

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