Muslim Women, Reform and Princely Patronage: Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam of Bhopal

Muslim Women, Reform and Princely Patronage: Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam of Bhopal
Siobhan Lambert-Hurley (Routledge, 2006)
ISBN: 9780415401920

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. Siobhan Lambert-Hurley puts forward the importance for early Muslim female activists to balance continuity and innovation.