The travels of Dean Mahomet : an eighteenth-century journey through India / / edited with an introduction and biographical essay by Michael H. Fisher

• Autore: Mahomet Sake Deen <1759-1851, >
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 1997
• Edizione: Reprint 2020
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxiii, 229 pages) : illustrations, mays
• Disciplina: 915.404/29
• Soggetto topico: Immigrants - Great Britain - History - 18th century; East Indians - Great Britain - Social conditions
• Soggetto geografico: India Politics and government 1765-1947
• Altri autori: FisherMichael Herbert <1950->
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- Map -- PREFACE -- ONE. The World of Eighteenth-Century India -- 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 -- THREE. Dean Mahomet in Ireland and England (1784-1851) -- NOTES -- GLOSSARY -- ABBREVIATIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The travels of Dean Mahomet
• ISBN: 0-585-13112-0; 0-520-91851-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910495969903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II