Recent studies about the Muslim pilgrimage have successfully expanded the geographic scope of our understanding of the social, economic, administrative, and spiritual impact the experience has had on global affairs. Choudhury’s original perspective focuses on a period in which the Mughal Empire faced the expansion of British imperialism in the Indian Ocean. Her understanding of how the shifts in power impacted Muslims' capacities to organize their annual migrations proves valuable by explaining how the ascendancy of British imperialism between 1739 and 1857 corresponded with transformations in Muslim political culture in South Asia. Attending to the consequences on the Mughal Empire, British administrators of the larger Indian Ocean impacted South Asian Muslims’ ability to conduct their religious duties, hinting at an adaptive government over the emerging new political class in the Mughal Empire’s last years. Drawing on first-hand depositions and archival records of Ottoman, British, and Mughal administrators attending to the Haj, Choudhury (Oberlin College) reveals how many Muslim pilgrims used their time on pilgrimage to mediate the shifts of power in South Asia, reflecting new synergies of interests among Muslims around the world. This mirrored those discovered in respect to Central Asians passing through these same bureaucratic filters. Summing Up: Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty.