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The Travels of Dean Mahomet
An Eighteenth-Century Journey through India
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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.
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. Fishe
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.
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. Fishe
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS MAP
- FIGURES
- PREFACE A TEXT AND A LIFE
- DEAN MAHOMET IN EUROPE (1784-1851)
- THE SIGNIFICANCE OF DEAN MAHOMET’S WORK
- A GUIDE TO THIS VOLUME
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- THE MUGHAL EMPIRE AND THE REGIONAL STATES
- THE EUROPEAN EAST INDIA COMPANIES
- THE DIVERSE ORIGINS OF THE BENGAL ARMY
- THE NEW MODEL: THE SEPOY
- SEPOY BATTALIONS
- THE BENGAL ARMY’S EUROPEAN REGIMENTS
- DEAN MAHOMET’S YOUTH IN BIHAR (1759-69)
- DEAN MAHOMET AS CAMP FOLLOWER (1769-81)
- DEAN MAHOMET AS BENGAL ARMY OFFICER (1781-82)
- DEAN MAHOMET IN TRANSIT (1782-84)
- TWO The Travels of Dean Mahomet, A Native of Patna in Bengal, Through Several Parts of India, While in the Service of The Honourable The East India Company Written by Himself, In a Series of Letters to a Friend
- DEAN MAHOMET ENTERS CORK
- PUBLICATION OF TRAVELS
- CORK SOCIETY
- IMMIGRATION TO LONDON
- DEAN MAHOMET WORKS FOR A NABOB
- THE HINDOSTANEE COFFEE HOUSE (1809-12)
- THE WORLD OF BRIGHTON
- DEAN MAHOMET AND JANE MOVE TO BRIGHTON
- THE BATTERY HOUSE BATHS (1815-20)
- MAHOMED’S BATHS (1821-43)
- SHIFTING SELF-PRESENTATIONS
- THE INDIAN METHOD
- SHAMPOOING SURGEON TO ROYALTY
- SOCIAL POSITION IN BRIGHTON
- DEAN MAHOMET’S LEGACIES
- NOTES
- GLOSSARY
- ABBREVIATIONS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX