1st Edition
Muslim Women, Reform and Princely Patronage Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam of Bhopal
By Siobhan Lambert-Hurley
Copyright 2007
276 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
276 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
272 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This is a new and engaging examination of the emergence of a Muslim women’s movement in India. The state of Bhopal, a Muslim principality in central India, was ruled by a succession of female rulers throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, most notably the last Begam of Bhopal, Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam.
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Introduction 1. Models and Inheritances 2. State and Society 3. Scholars and Schools 4. Veiling and Seclusion 5. Medicine and Motherhood 6. Rights and Duties. Conclusions
Biography
Siobhan Lambert-Hurley is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Nottingham Trent University. Her research focuses on women, gender and Islam in South Asia with a particular emphasis on education, social and political organizations, the culture of travel, missionaries, and personal narratives. Her other publications include Rhetoric and Reality: Gender and the Colonial Experience in South Asia (co-edited with Avril A. Powell) (2006).
