A Portrait of the West, Qazi Abdul Ghaffar (Penguin Random House India, 2027)
Qazi Abdul Ghaffar’s decolonial travelogue tracks the ins and outs of the Khilafat Movement’s delegation to Europe in 1920. Full of precious historical details about the end of the Ottoman Empire and the Indian national freedom struggle, as well as biting satire.
Supported by a grant from the New India Foundation