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A Pilgrimage to Mecca
Sikandar Begum, Nawab of Bhopal dedicated her travelogue in Urdu to her fellow ruler Queen Victoria. The English translation includes the Nawab's dedicace as well as the dedicace from Shahjahan Begum to her friend and translator of the travelogue, Mrs Willoughby-Osborne. The volume contains very early examples of photographs of Bhopal, as well as portraits of the ruling family.
A Princess's Pilgrimage
Account of a former ruling nawab from Bhopal, princely state in India.
Hayat-i-Qudsi
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Begums of Bhopal
The story of the four brilliant and dynamic begums of Bhopal - Qudsiya Begum, Sikander Begum, Shah Jahan Begum and Sultan Jahan Begum.
Hayat-I-Qudsi, Life of the Nawab Gauhar Begum Alias the Nawab Begum Qudsia of Bhopal
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The Begums of Bhopal
"Between 1819 and 1926 four Muslim women rulers reigned over Bhopal, the second largest Muslim state of India, despite staunch opposition from powerful neighbours and male claimants. Even the British East India Company initially opposed female rule in Bhopal until the Begums "d Queen Victoria as their model and inspiration. Qudsia, the first Begum, was supported by her powerful French-Bourbon Prime Minister in her departure from the traditional. She was succeeded in 1844 by Sikandar, her only daughter, who discarded purdah like her mother and was a powerful and awesome ruler, leading her armies into battle, and indulging in the male-dominated pastimes of polo and tiger-hunting. Sikandar's on...
Hayat-I-Qudsi
Excerpt from Hayat-I-Qudsi: Life of the Nawab Gauhar Begum Alias the Nawab Begum Qudsia, of Bhopal The life of her great grandmother given in this volume by Her Highness, the present Begum of Bhopal, takes the reader back to a most stirring and stormy period of Indian history. Qudsia Begum's childhood followed closely on the last irruption into India of the Afghans from the North and the march of the Maharatta armies from the Deccan into Upper India. Her youth witnessed the advance of the power of the East India Company, the defeat of the Maharattas and the stamping out of the predatory bands of Pindaras. The pacification of India followed in the early years of the 19th Century, and the dist...
