Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- PART ONE INTRODUCTION
- PART TWO THE BALKANS, THE CONGO AND THE MIDDLE EAST
- PART THREE INDIA
- 5 Imperial Player: Richard Burton in Sindh
- 6 Early Indian Travel Guides to Britain
- 7 A Princess's Pilgrimage: Nawab Sikandar Begam's Account of Hajj
- PART FOUR AMERICA
- PART FIVE AUSTRALASIA
- Further Reading
- Index
7 - A Princess's Pilgrimage: Nawab Sikandar Begam's Account of Hajj
from PART THREE - INDIA
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- PART ONE INTRODUCTION
- PART TWO THE BALKANS, THE CONGO AND THE MIDDLE EAST
- PART THREE INDIA
- 5 Imperial Player: Richard Burton in Sindh
- 6 Early Indian Travel Guides to Britain
- 7 A Princess's Pilgrimage: Nawab Sikandar Begam's Account of Hajj
- PART FOUR AMERICA
- PART FIVE AUSTRALASIA
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
Introduction: women travellers, Muslim travellers
Between July and October 2004, the National Portrait Gallery in London featured a special exhibition entitled ‘Off the Beaten Track: Three Centuries of Women Travellers’. It highlighted the journeys of predominantly British women as they travelled to other parts of the globe between the 1660s and the 1960s. Only in the final section of the exhibition, in a small corner to itself, did it recognize women travelling in other directions, specifically ‘a selection of the world's women who made Britain their destination’. Of these twelve, four hailed from the Indian sub-continent, while just two were Muslims. That these women were included at all is certainly to be commended for its recognition of South Asian and Muslim women's participation in the culture of travel, yet their few numbers and bounded location suggest the marginalization of their experiences.
Over the past two decades, some scholars have sought to redirect attention to these and other marginalized figures. A pioneering effort in this direction was Rozina Visram's Ayahs, Lascars and Princes (1986) which documented the substantial numbers of Indians, many of whom were Muslim and some of whom were female, who resided in Britain as servants, sailors and labourers from the early eighteenth century.
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- Travel Writing in the Nineteenth CenturyFilling the Blank Spaces, pp. 107 - 128Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2006
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