It documents a process by which notions of the self could be redefined against a Muslim "other" and the way in which Arabia was constructed by a colonial subject as a part of discourse about "the Orient".
—The Asian Age,January 2008
…Siobhan Lambert-Hurley's introduction becomes invaluable. Lambert-Hurley does an excellent job of placing the Begum in her time and explaining the circumstances within which she was operating, and to whom her words were addressed.
