Women's Day fiction: What a little girl learns about her great-grandmother's life in a harem
Women’s Day fiction: What a little girl learns about her great-grandmother’s life in a harem An excerpt from ‘The Begum and the Dastan’, by Tarana Husain Khan. Author Tarana Husain Khan. So, this is the story of Feroza Begum, my grandmother and your great-grandmother. May Allah forgive my tongue for any transgressions. The year was 1896 or 1897, the reign of Nawab Shams Ali Khan had just begun, and Feroza Begum desperately wanted to attend the sawani hosted by the Nawab at Benaz...
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