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Helen Pfeifer: Princess Gulbadan, 26 June 2025

Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan 
by Ruby Lal.
Yale, 248 pp., £11.99, April, 978 0 300 28195 8Show More
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“... harems were the headquarters for political and diplomatic operations of the highest order. Ruby Lal has made a career of bringing to light the lives of Mughal women. Her latest book is a study of Gulbadan Begum, the daughter of the founder of the Mughal Empire. During her lifetime the Mughals rose from being a Central Asian dynasty struggling to ...”

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