Nawab Sikandar Begum's 'A pilgrimage to Mecca'
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Lambert-Hurley, Siobhan > (ed. : intr. : afterw.)
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- WER 4 2008
- Thesaurus
- reizen, islam, moslima's, kolonialisme, identiteit, reisliteratuur, Saudi-Arabië, India, 19e eeuw, 1860-1869, reisbeschrijving
- Description
- In 1863, the Nawab Sikandar Begum, a Indian Muslim woman and hereditary ruler of the princely state of Bhopal in colonial India, traveled to Mecca for 'hajj' with a retinue of a thousand people. On returning, she wrote an account of her journey. It focusses on the role of the colonial environment and the process by which notions of the self could be redefined against a Muslim 'other' and the way in which Arabia was constructed by a colonial subject as part of the discourse about 'the Orient'. .This volume reproduces the original English translation of Sikandar Begum's Urdu maniscript, prepared by E.L. Willoughby-Osborne, the wife of a British colonial officer, first published in 1871.