Abida Sultaan
Memoirs of a Rebel Princess
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Pakistan
- Date of Publication 14 February 2008
- ISBN 9780195979077
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 226x144x24 mm
- Weight 464 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 50 photographs 0
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Short description:
Written shortly before her death and based on the diaries that she kept throughout her life, this book documents the activities of a Muslim princess who rebelled against societal conventions to take an active public role, first, as heir-apparent and chief secretary of an Indian princely state, then as diplomat and dissident in independent Pakistan.
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Written shortly before her death this book documents the activities of a Muslim princess who rebelled against societal conventions to take an active public role, first, as heir-apparent and chief secretary within the context of an Indian princely state, then, shortly after partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947, as diplomat and dissident in independent Pakistan.
The heir apparent to a long line of women rulers in Bhopal State (central India) Princess Abida Sultaan was a profound witness to history. Bred by her grandmother to be a perfect synthesis of East and West, she knew most of the leaders in the independence struggle. Her memoirs are significant as they give an insight into the changes that have occurred for politically active Muslim women of the Indian subcontinent in the twentieth century. It charts the internal political events of an
individual princely state and includes a discussion on the collapse of princely India and the events surrounding partition. Generally, this autobiography challenges the portrayal of Muslim women as silent, secluded and oppressed. Her memoirs will aid in removing widespread misconceptions, particularly with
regard to the status of women in Islam.
Princess Abida left Bhopal and migrated to Pakistan in 1949. She died in Karachi on 11 May 2002.
Table of Contents:
Foreword
Preface
The Main Characters
Family Trees
Map of Bhopal
Part I: India
My Birth and Childhood, 1913 - 1923
Adolescence, 1924 -1930
1930s The Golden Decade
The Sun Sets on Bhopal, 1939 1949
Part II: Pakistan
Beginning a New Life, 1950 - 1960
Entering the Political Cauldron, 1960 - 1971
Democracy, Dictatorship and Decline, 1971 - 1999
Autumn Leaves, 2000 - 2002
Epilogue
Appendix: Bhopal A Brief History
Index
