{"product_id":"a-princesss-pilgrimage-9781847740007","title":"A Princess's Pilgrimage","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1870, Nawab Sikander Begum of Bhopal became the first South-Asian Muslim woman to publish an account of her pilgrimage to Mecca. She travelled with a retinue of a thousand, visited Jeddah and Mecca, performed the requisite rituals and observances, then returned to India and wrote her witty and acerbic impressions of her visit. Reproduced here, A Princess’s Pilgrimage to Mecca is the original English translation by the wife of British colonial officer of an unpublished Urdu manuscript. It is accompanied by a critical Introduction and Afterword that make this offering a comprehensive resource on trvael writing by South-Asian Muslim women, and encourage the reader- whether scholar, student or enthusiast – to rethink established understandings relating to travel writing colonialism and world history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Siobhan Lambert-Hurley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48284429680891,"sku":"9781847740007","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781847740007.jpg?v=1772487697","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/a-princesss-pilgrimage-9781847740007","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}