Atiya’s Journeys: A Muslim Woman from Colonial Bombay to Edwardian Britain

Siobhan Lambert-Hurley is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Nottingham Trent University in the United Kingdom.  Her research focuses on women, gender and Islam in South Asia with a particular emphasis on education, social and political organizations, the culture of travel, missionaries and autobiographical narratives.  Her other publications include Muslim Women, Reform and Princely Patronage: Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam of Bhopal (2007), and Rhetoric and Reality: Gender and the Colonial Experience in South Asia (co-edited with Avril A. Powell, 2006).

Sunil Sharma, a renowned teacher, is a masters degree holder in tourism and hospitality management. In his diverse professional career, he has been associated with a number of academic institutions and wellknown research organisations. Widely travelled all over the world, he has participated in a number of national and international conference. As a prolific writer he has published a large number of articles on tourism development, hospitality and hotel management isn professional journals of repute.