princess's pilgrimage : Nawab Sikandar Begum's 'A pilgrimage to Mecca'
English translation of an unpublished Urdu manuscript by the wife of a British colonial officer about her pilgrimage to Mecca. Focus on the role of the colonial environment and the process by which notions of the self could be redefined against a Muslim 'other' and the way in which Arabia was constructed by a colonial subject as part of the discourse about 'the Orient'.