A Journey to Mecca and London: The Travels of an Indian Muslim Woman, 1909-1910 - Paperback
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A Journey to Mecca and London: The Travels of an Indian Muslim Woman, 1909-1910
Descended from Mughal nobility, Akhtar al-Nisa Begum Nawab Sarbuland Jung grew up in Hyderabad in southern India, where she lived a quiet, private, and privileged life at the heart of the state's royal court. In 1896, at the age of 20, she married Nawab Muhammad Hamidullah Khan Sarbuland Jung, a prominent lawyer and the scion of a leading Muslim reformist movement. In 1909, the wealthy couple...
Daniel Majchrowicz is Associate Professor of South Asian Literature and Culture at Northwestern University. He is author of The World in Words: Travel Writing and the Global Imagination in Muslim South Asia and editor (with Siobhan Lambert-Hurley and Sunil Sharma) of Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women.
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