JAHAN, Sultan, Nawab Begum of Bhopal.

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An Account of my Life. First editions, all of which are fairly uncommon institutionally and certainly so on the market. These copies sumptuously presented and although unmarked as such from the Harewood House library of Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood, only daughter of George V and Queen Mary; she was made a Companion of the Crown of India in 1919.Sultan Jahan, Begum of Bhopal (1858-1930), ruled Bhopal State from 1901 until 1926. During this time, she enacted a series of innovative reformist policies such as the creation of workshops in prisons, the establishment of schools and colleges for Muslim and Hindu women, and improvements to general sanitation in the region. As part of these measures, she founded the Lady Lansdowne Hospital for Women and the Lady Hardinge Infant Home, which housed, fed, and clothed orphan and destitute children, both of which are still active. At the Lady Lansdowne hospital, she implemented a scheme to encourage the training of midwives by an allowance of five rupees a month for each woman who attended the daily classes. She was a prolific writer, publishing nearly 50 works on various religious and social topics. She often gave speeches to the Princess of Wales Ladies' Club in Bhopal, which she founded in 1909, describing the life of Muhammad. She was awarded the title of Knight Grand Commander in 1910 and was made Companion of the Order of the Crown of India in 1911 for services to the British Empire. A further volume of the autobiogra

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