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Vagabond princess : the great adventures of Gulbadan / Ruby Lal.
Van Pelt Library DS461.9.G8 L35 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lal, Ruby, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gulbadan, Begam, 1524-1603.
- Gulbadan.
- Princesses--Mughal Empire--Biography.
- Princesses.
- Mughal Empire--History.
- Mughal Empire.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 248 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2024]
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300251272
- 0300251270
- OCLC:
- 1395421693
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