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

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

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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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