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a)
TITLE: An Account of My Life
SUBTITLE: By Her Highness Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam, G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., C.I., Ruler of Bhopal
AUTHOR: Translated by C H Payne, Educational Adviser to H H the Begam
PUBLISHER: John Murray
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1910
VOLUME: 1
EDITION: First
NO.OF PAGES: pp. xxvi, 304 with 46 plates and a map
BINDING: Bound in sky blue cloth with gilt title on covers and spines and coat-of-arms of the Bhopal State
SIZE:
Height: 22 cm
Width: 15 cm
Depth: 4 cm
Signed on the half-title: 'Sultan Jahan'
Printed in England
TITLE: An Account of My Life
SUBTITLE: By Her Highness Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam, G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., C.I., Ruler of Bhopal
AUTHOR: Translated by Major Abdus Samad Khan, Political Secretary to H H the Begam
PUBLISHER: The Times Press
PLACE: Bombay
YEAR: 1922
VOLUME: 2
EDITION: First
NO.OF PAGES: pp. xiv, 274 with 46 plates
BINDING: Bound in sky blue cloth with gilt title on covers and spines and coat-of-arms of the Bhopal State
SIZE:
Height: 22 cm
Width: 15 cm
Depth: 4 cm
Printed at the Times Press, Bombay
Though published 12 years apart and at different presses, both volumes are uniformly bound in sky blue cloth with gilt title on covers and spines and coat-of-arms of the Bhopal State. Only Volume 1 is signed by the Begam and that page also has blank rubber stamps of 'Educational Department, Bhopal' and 'The Hamidiya Library, Bhopal State'. Volume 2 has no stamps.
b)
TITLE: Hayat-I-Qudsi
SUBTITLE: Life of the Nawab Gauhar Begum Alias the Nawab Begum Qudsia, of Bhopal
AUTHOR: Her Highness Nawab Sultan Jahan Begum, G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., C.I., Ruler of Bhopal. Translated by W. S. Davis, Political Agent in Bhopal
PUBLISHER: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.; E. P. Dutton & Co.
PLACE: London and New York
YEAR: 1918
EDITION:
NO.OF PAGES: pp. 160 + 8 portraits + 6 colour reproductions of watercolours of Bhopal city
BINDING: Original blue cloth with the coat of arms of Bhopal state gilt-embossed on the cover. Upper cover a little speckled.
SIZE:
Height: 19 cm
Width: 12.6 cm
Depth: 1.2 cm
This is a biography of Sultan Jahan Begum's great grandmother [1799-1881]
This copy was presented by Nawab Sultan Jahan Begum to Lady Alice Lowther [author of a book on India, THE LAND OF THE GOLDMOHUR, published in 1932]. There is an inscription in her handwriting on front endpaper that reads: "Alice Lowther. Given to me at Bhopal, India - 1924 November - by Her Highness the Sultan Jahan". Lowther's book has a chapter on Bhopal.
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