In the 1860s, the female Indian Muslim ruler of Bhopal, Sikandar Begum, wrote a warts-and-all account of Mecca as a “wild and melancholy-looking” city whose “dirty and ill-drained” streets were filled with disease and disorder.
Durante la década de 1860, la mujer india musulmana, Sikandar Begum, dirigente de Bhopal, describió sin cortapisas la Meca como una “ciudad salvaje y de aspecto melancólico” cuyas “calles sucias y mal drenadas” abundaban en enfermedades y desorden.