Vagabond princess : the great adventures of Gulbadan / Ruby Lal.

Title:

ISBN:

9780300251272

Personal Author:

Lal, Ruby

Publication Information:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2024]

Physical Description:

xix, 248 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Contents:

Complex messages -- Rose princess and her circle -- Rose garden -- Curiosities of hind -- First Kafila -- My royal father -- Female guardians of the empire -- Great expectation -- Butzaris -- Promised land -- Road to Mecca -- Everyone's Mecca -- Send them back -- Return -- Books of Gulbadan.

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." -- Front jacket flap.

Personal Subject:

Gulbadan, Begam, 1524-1603.

Geographic Term:

Mughal Empire -- History.

Subject Term:

Princesses--Mughal Empire -- Biography.

Genre:

Biographies

OCLC Number:

on1395421693

Availability:

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