This is the memoir of a remarkable woman, Begum Khurshid Mirza, the daughter of Sheikh Abdullah and Waheed Jahan Begum, the founders of Aligarh Womens College. Contents
Preface
Foreword
1 Growing Up in Aligarh
2 Papa Mian: June 1874March 1965
3 Farashkhana, the Ancestral Home in Delhi
4 The Struggle for Female Education
5 Abdullah Lodge, Aligarh
6 My Sister, Rasheed Jahan 1905-1952
7 An Early Marriage
8 On Shikar with Akbar
9 Renuka Devi, my Celluloid Identity
10 Leaving India
11 My Home, a New Country
12 Quiet Days in Quetta
13 Akbars Leavetaking
14 Years of Fame
Remembering Appi and Daddy
Afterword
Author/Editor Details
Edited by: Lubna Kazin , works, Aurat Foundation, Lahore
Edited by: Gail Minault , Professor, History,University of Texas, Austin