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"Indian Lady Tourists Killed at Jericho": Tourism, Pilgrimage and South-South relations in Interwar Palestine

IRVING, Sarah (2023) "Indian Lady Tourists Killed at Jericho": Tourism, Pilgrimage and South-South relations in Interwar Palestine. Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East & North African Migration Studies, 10 (2). ISSN 2169-4435

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In press coverage of the 1927 earthquake in Palestine, frequent mention is made of the deaths of three women at the Winter Palace Hotel in Jericho. That the three were from British-occupied India apparently rendered them unusual enough to be noted by a journalist, whose observation was reproduced around the world. This article draws on newspapers, official documents, and secondary literature on the hajj, tourism, and the British Empire to consider the history of South Asian travelers to Palestine and relationships between colonialism and travel in the interwar period.

One of the three women was Lady Abdul Rauf, the wife of a retired high court judge and veteran Indian Muslim nationalist campaigner, Sir Syed Abdul Rauf. The couple had departed Bombay in April 1927 for the hajj to Mecca and Medina but extended their trip to include Jericho. This was not unusual; the Indian Hospice in the Old City of Jerusalem in fact attests to a long history of Indian visitors to Palestine. This paper, however, locates the ill-fated presence of Lady Abdul Rauf and her companions in the changing nature of Indian travel in the region, as religious pilgrimage to Jerusalem combined with politics and tourism, and as changing infrastructures of capitalism and colonialism shifted how Indian visitors experienced Palestine.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: British Empire, hajj, India, Muslim, Mandatory Palestine, tourism
Faculty: School of Law, Policing and Forensics > International Studies and History
Depositing User: Sarah IRVING
Date Deposited: 03 Nov 2023 15:36
Last Modified: 03 Nov 2023 15:36
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URI: https://eprints.staffs.ac.uk/id/eprint/7950

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