A Princess’s Pilgrimage Games including four trips to Hajj

including four trips to Hajj

and learn some general manners to observe inside

Being from the West

At the masjid they will make wudu

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A Princess’s Pilgrimage Games including four trips to HajjIn 1870, Nawab Sikander Begum of Bhopal became the first South Asian Muslim woman to publish an account of her pilgrimage to Mecca. She travelled with a retinue of a thousand, visited Jeddah and Mecca, performed the requisite rituals and observances, then returned to India and wrote her witty and acerbic impressions of her visit. Reproduced here, A Princesss Pilgrimage to Mecca is the original English translation by the wife of British colonial