Siobhan Lambert-Hurley is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Nottingham Trent University, UK. She is author of Muslim Women, Reform and Princely Patronage: Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam of Bhopal and Rhetoric and Reality: Gender and the Colonial Experience in South Asia.

• Preface and AcknowledgmentsAn Introduction to Nawab Sikander Begum's Account of Hajj, by Siobhan Lambert-HurleyA Pilgrimage to Mecca: The Nawab Sikandar Begum of BhopalPrefaceTranslator's PrefaceChapter 1Chapter 2Chapter 3Chapter 4Chapter 5Chapter 6Chapter 7Chapter 8Chapter 9Chapter 10Chapter 11Chapter 12Chapter 13Chapter 14Chapter 15Chapter 16Chapter 17Chapter 18Chapter 19AppendicesAfterword: Muslim Women Write Their Journeys Abroad, by Siobhan Lambert-HurleyBibliography

". . . this book - with its excellent introduction and afterword - should be celebrated by historians studying the Indian Ocean basin, the history of Islam, travel writing and women's history."—Brett Bennett, University of Texas, Austin, JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES, Vol. 48.3"This is a must—read for students of gender, imperial, post/colonial, and Middle Eastern histories."—Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois"Readers interested in a very wide range of subjects, including Indian history, Muslim women, and Islam in the colonial period, will welcome this book."—Barbara D. Metcalf, University of Michigan