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| Title Statement | Vagabond princess: the great adventures of Gulbadan / Ruby Lal. |
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| Author | Lal, Ruby |
| Publication | New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,[2024]©2024 |
| Extent of Item | xix, 248 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates |
| ISBN | 9780300251272 (hardcover) |
| Other Number | pr07662486 |
| Contents | Complex messages --The rose princess and her circle --The rose garden --Curiosities of hind --The first Kafila --My royal father --Female guardians of the empire --Great expectation --Butzaris --The promised land --The road to Mecca --Everyone's Mecca --Send them back --Return --The books of Gulbadan. |
| Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-234) and index. |
| Summary | "Situated in the early decades of the magnificent Mughal Empire, this first ever biography of Princess Gulbadan offers an enthralling portrait of a charismatic adventurer and unique pictures of the multicultural society in which she lived. Following a migratory childhood that spanned Kabul and north India, Gulbadan spent her middle years in a walled harem established by her nephew Akbar to showcase his authority as the Great Emperor. Gulbadan longed for the exuberant itinerant lifestyle she'd known. With Akbar's blessing, she led an unprecedented sailing and overland voyage and guided harem women on an extended pilgrimage in Arabia. Amid increasing political tensions, the women's 'un-Islamic' behavior forced their return, lengthened by a dramatic shipwreck in the Red Sea. Gulbadan wrote a book upon her return, the only extant work of prose by a woman of the age. A portion of it is missing, either lost to history or redacted by officials who did not want the princess to have her say."-- |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Adventure and adventurers--Biography--Mughal Empire |
| Princesses--Biography--Mughal Empire | |
| Women--Social conditions--16th century--Mughal Empire | |
| By Name | Gulbadan,1524-1603 |
| By Location | Mughal Empire--Biography |
| Mughal Empire--History--16th century | |
| By Genre | Biographies |
