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Adventures of a Mughal Princess

Released Monday, 4th March 2024
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Adventures of a Mughal Princess

Adventures of a Mughal Princess

Adventures of a Mughal Princess

Adventures of a Mughal Princess

Monday, 4th March 2024
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In the British Library, there is a manuscript copy of the memoir of Princess Gulbadan, the only surviving female-authored memoir from the Mughal Empire. In it, Gulbadan tells her extraordinary story: from growing up in a multi-cultural society, via life in a walled harem, to an unprecedented women's pilgrimage to Mecca, complete with dramatic shipwreck in the Red Sea.

 

In this episode of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb finds out more from Professor Ruby Lal, whose latest book, Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan, examines this largely forgotten manuscript and the life of the remarkable woman who wrote it.


This episode was edited by Ella Blaxill and produced by Rob Weinberg.


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