The Travels of Dean Mahomet by Dean Mahomet

'(Fisher)'s style means that large parts of this work literally reads like a novel.

The Travels of Dean Mahomet can also be found online - a version that is highly recommendedī : interesting, colourful historic document, nicely presentedįascinating historic document, well presented.

See also The First Indian Author in English (Oxford University Press, 1996) (see our review), which includes almost all the same material as this volume.Includes The Travels of Dean Mahomet (1794), and supporting material and commentary by Michael H.An Eighteenth-Century Journey Through India.General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. But it also offers an engaging biography of a resourceful, multidimensional individual.The Travels of Dean Mahomet - Dean Mahomed (ed. 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. Travelspresents 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. 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.

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. Fisher's portrayal of Mahomet's sojourn as an insider/outsider in India, Ireland, and England. 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.

The Travels of Dean Mahomet by Dean Mahomet