Gulbadan Begum: princess, explorer, author

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🗓️ 6 August 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Gulbadan Begum was meant to live a quiet life in a Mughal harem. Instead she set off on a daring pilgrimage to Islam's holy cities and, on her return, wrote an extraordinary account of her dynasty. In conversation with Spencer Mizen, Ruby Lal explores the life of a princess who transformed perceptions of what women could achieve in the 16th century. (Ad) Ruby Lal is the author of Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan (Yale University Press, 2024). Buy it now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vagabond-Princess-Great-Adventures-Gulbadan/dp/0300251270/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-histboty. The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.3	Welcome. Welcome to the History Extra Podcast,
0:37.0	Fascinating historical conversations from the makers of BBC History magazine.
0:44.0	Gulbudan Begum was meant to live a quiet life in a mugel harem.
0:49.0	But instead, she went off on a daring pilgrimage to Islam's holy cities and on her return wrote an extraordinary
0:57.4	account of her dynasty.
0:59.4	Speaking to Spencer Misen, in today's podcast Ruby Lall explores the life of a princess who transformed perceptions
1:07.0	of what women could achieve in the 16th century.
1:10.0	Thank you very much for joining us today.
1:12.0	I wonder if you could start by introducing us to
1:15.8	Gorbudan. Who was she in a nutshell?
1:18.8	Gulbadan Banu Begum was the daughter of Baber, the founding patriarch of the great Moebles of India.
1:26.8	The important thing to know about her is that she was an itinerant princess and, you know, the sole historian of the Mughal Empire, a memoir slash history
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