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The Travels of Dean Mahomet: An Eighteenth-Century Journey through India
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The Travels of Dean Mahomet: An Eighteenth-Century Journey through India Paperback - 1997 - 1st Edition

by Mahomet, Dean

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An Indian, Dean Mahomet recalls his years as camp-follower, servant, and subaltern officer in the East India Company's army (1769 to 1784). Mahomet's account of life in late 18th-century India and later as an emigrant to England is a fascinating look at a resourceful, multidimensional individual. Illus.

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  • Title The Travels of Dean Mahomet: An Eighteenth-Century Journey through India
  • Author Mahomet, Dean
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used:Good
  • Pages 214
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley
  • Date 1997-07-30
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Index, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # DADAX0520207173
  • ISBN 9780520207172 / 0520207173
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.02 x 6.02 x 0.67 in (22.91 x 15.29 x 1.70 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 18th Century
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
    • Cultural Region: Indian
    • Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
  • Library of Congress subjects India - Politics and government - 1765-1947, East India Company
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96019700
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

From the publisher

This unusual study combines two books in one: the 1794 autobiographical travel narrative of an Indian, Dean Mahomet, recalling his years as camp-follower, servant, and subaltern officer in the East India Company's army (1769 to 1784); and Michael H. Fisher's portrayal of Mahomet's sojourn as an insider/outsider in India, Ireland, and England. Emigrating to Britain and living there for over half a century, Mahomet started what was probably the first Indian restaurant in England and then enjoyed a distinguished career as a practitioner of "oriental" medicine, i.e., therapeutic massage and herbal steam bath, in London and the seaside resort of Brighton. This is a fascinating account of life in late eighteenth-century India-the first book written in English by an Indian-framed by a mini-biography of a remarkably versatile entrepreneur.

Travels presents an Indian's view of the British conquest of India and conveys the vital role taken by Indians in the colonial process, especially as they negotiated relations with Britons both in the colonial periphery and the imperial metropole.

Connoisseurs of unusual travel narratives, historians of England, Ireland, and British India, as well as literary scholars of autobiography and colonial discourse will find much in this book. But it also offers an engaging biography of a resourceful, multidimensional individual.

First line

During the eighteenth century, the Mughal Empire, which for two centuries had provided political and cultural leadership for virtually all of India, fragmented as a variety of regionally based rulers seized power.

From the jacket flap

"A richly documented portrait and a model of historical detective work."Dane Kennedy, University of Nebraska"

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Citations

  • New York Times, 12/07/1997, Page 52

About the author

Michael H. Fisher is Professor of History at Oberlin College. He is the author of A Clash of Cultures: Awadh, the British, and the Mughals (1987) and Indirect Rule in India: Residents and the Residency System, 1764-1858 (1991).