Siobhan Lambert-Hurley is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Nottingham Trent University. 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 personal narratives. Her other publications include Rhetoric and Reality: Gender and the Colonial Experience in South Asia (co-edited with Avril A. Powell) (2006).

• Introduction 1. Models and Inheritances 2. State and Society 3. Scholars and Schools 4. Veiling and Seclusion 5. Medicine and Motherhood 6. Rights and Duties. Conclusions

Siobhan Lambert-Hurley is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Nottingham Trent University. 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 personal narratives. Her other publications include Rhetoric and Reality: Gender and the Colonial Experience in South Asia (co-edited with Avril A. Powell) (2006).

• Introduction 1. Models and Inheritances 2. State and Society 3. Scholars and Schools 4. Veiling and Seclusion 5. Medicine and Motherhood 6. Rights and Duties. Conclusions

Siobhan Lambert-Hurley is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Nottingham Trent University. 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 personal narratives. Her other publications include Rhetoric and Reality: Gender and the Colonial Experience in South Asia (co-edited with Avril A. Powell) (2006).

• Introduction 1. Models and Inheritances 2. State and Society 3. Scholars and Schools 4. Veiling and Seclusion 5. Medicine and Motherhood 6. Rights and Duties. Conclusions