1 option
The travels of Dean Mahomet : an eighteenth-Century journey through India / edited with an introduction and biographical essay by Michael H. Fisher.
LIBRA DS412.M25 A3 1997
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mahomet, Sake Deen, 1759-1851.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mahomet, Sake Deen, 1759-1851.
- Mahomet, Sake Deen.
- East India Company. Army.
- History.
- East Indians.
- Social conditions.
- Immigrants.
- Great Britain.
- Mahomet, Sake Deen, 1759-1851--Travel--Europe.
- Travel.
- Europe.
- Immigrants--Great Britain--History.
- East Indians--Great Britain--Social conditions.
- East India Company. Army--History.
- East India Company.
- India--Politics and government--1765-1947.
- India.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [1997]
- Summary:
- Vividly recounting his travels as a camp follower and then as a subaltern officer in the British East India Company's army, Dean Mahomet - an early Indian emigrant to Britain - presents us with the first book ever written by an Indian in English. He began this memoir, which was originally published in 1794, with his wrenching departure from his childhood home among the Indian Muslim elite. He concluded with his voyage to Ireland in 1784. His auto-ethnographic account of his family's domestic and religious customs, and of this crucial period in the violent establishment of British colonialism, stands as an important counterexample to any view of eighteenth-century English literature as the sole preserve of Europeans. Placing the Travels in context, Michael Fisher's introduction and biographical essay trace the author's life in India and Britain.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0520207165
- 0520207173
- OCLC:
- 34691075
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.