The Travels Of Dean Mahomet

Author : Dean Mahomet
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520918511

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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.

Author : Sake Deen Mahomet
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1997-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520207172

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The Travels of Dean Mahomet by Sake Deen Mahomet Pdf

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.

Author : Michael Herbert Fisher
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019272520

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The First Indian Author in English by Michael Herbert Fisher Pdf

The First Indian Ever To Write And Publish A Book In English, Dean Mahomed (1759-1851), Lived A Varied Life. His Book, The Travels Of Dean Mahomet Is Reprinted Here For The First Time Since Its Publication In 1794.

Author : Sake Deen 1759-1851 Nr 930 Mahomet
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1014876303

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The Travels of Dean Mahomet by Sake Deen 1759-1851 Nr 930 Mahomet Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Humberto Garcia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108495646

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England Re-Oriented by Humberto Garcia Pdf

Between 1750 and 1857, westward-bound Central and South Asian travelers connected imperial Britain to Persian Indo-Eurasia by performing queer masculinities.

Author : Michael Herbert Fisher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Authors, Indic
ISBN : UOM:39015041341002

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The First Indian Author in English by Michael Herbert Fisher Pdf

The First Indian Ever To Write And Publish A Book In English, Dean Mahomed (1759-1851), Lived A Varied Life. His Book, The Travels Of Dean Mahomet Is Reprinted Here For The First Time Since Its Publication In 1794.

Author : M. A. Laird
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0521143217

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Bishop Heber in Northern India by M. A. Laird Pdf

This 1971 edition contains selections from Heber's account of his stay in Calcutta in 1823-24 and his subsequent journey across northern India to Bombay. The journal is marked by a sympathetic understanding of and interest in India to a degree by no means always to be found in British writers of this time.

Author : Michael Herbert Fisher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Anglo-Indians
ISBN : IND:30000127015596

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The Inordinately Strange Life of Dyce Sombre by Michael Herbert Fisher Pdf

The descendent of European mercenaries and their Indian concubines, raised by a stepmother who began as a courtesan and became the Catholic ruler of a cosmopolitan kingdom, David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre (1808-1851) defies all classification. Sombre took advantage of the sensual pleasures of privilege but lost his kingdom to the British. Exiled in London, he married the daughter of a Protestant viscount and bought himself election as an MP, only to be expelled for corruption. His treatment of his life led to his arrest as a Chancery 'lunatic'. Sombre then spent years trying to reclaim his sanity and fortune. In this captivating biography, Michael H. Fisher recovers Sombre's unconventional life and its implications for modern conceptions of race, privilege and empire.

Author : Matthew Lockwood
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300232257

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To Begin the World Over Again by Matthew Lockwood Pdf

The first exploration of the profound and often catastrophic impact the American Revolution had on the rest of the world. While the American Revolution led to domestic peace and liberty, it ultimately had a catastrophic global impact-it strengthened the British Empire and led to widespread persecution and duress. From the opium wars in China to anti-imperial rebellions in Peru to the colonization of Australia-the inspirational impact the American success had on fringe uprisings was outweighed by the influence it had on the tightening fists of oppressive world powers. Here Matthew Lockwood presents, in vivid detail, the neglected story of this unintended revolution. It sowed the seeds of collapse for the preeminent empires of the early modern era, setting the stage for the global domination of Britain, Russia, and the United States. Lockwood illuminates the forgotten stories and experiences of the communities and individuals who adapted to this new world in which the global balance of power had been drastically altered.--Adapted from jacket.

Author : Nilanjana Roy
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789350297124

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The Girl Who Ate Books by Nilanjana Roy Pdf

A unique collection of essays from one of India's best-loved critics From Bankimchandra Chatterjee to G.V. Desani to Vikram Seth, Indian writing in English has come a long way over the last hundred years. And Nilanjana Roy - voracious eater of books and sharpest of critics - has taken stock of it all. One of India's most widely read journalists, Roy has been writing reviews, columns, essays and features for over two decades. The Girl Who Ate Books revisits the best of these occasional pieces and weaves them together with a set of new personal essays. From early memories of living in a house made of books to encounters with men and women who hoarded books to the author's first taste of the printed word, this is a memoir of reading, loving and living with books like no other. Bringing together writers across generations - from the obscure Sake Dean Mahomet to the mischievous Khushwant Singh to the fiery Arundhati Roy - The Girl Who Ate Books gives us a ringside view of the theatre of Indian writing in English over several decades, and especially the last two. Written in the author's understated but unfailingly elegant style, this is an essential collection for those who live to read and read to live.

Author : Sake Deen Mahomet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1794
Category : India
ISBN : OCLC:8782168

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The travels of Dean Mahomet by Sake Deen Mahomet Pdf

Author : Ármin Vámbéry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600013553

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Travels in central Asia by Ármin Vámbéry Pdf

Author : Matthew Dimmock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107032910

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Mythologies of the Prophet Muhammad in Early Modern English Culture by Matthew Dimmock Pdf

This book explores how the figure of the Prophet Muhammad was misrepresented in English and wider Christian culture between 1480 and 1735. By tracing the ways in which 'Mahomet' was written and rewritten, contested and celebrated, this study explores notions of identity and religion, and the resonances of this history today.

Author : Abū Ṭālib Khān
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1814
Category : Africa
ISBN : OXFORD:N13212299

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The Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan in Asia, Africa, and Europe, During the Years 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, and 1803 by Abū Ṭālib Khān Pdf

Author : Brian Cowan
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300133509

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The Social Life of Coffee by Brian Cowan Pdf

What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeehouse, emerge as the primary place for consumption of this new drink? In this lively book, Brian Cowan locates the answers to these questions in the particularly British combination of curiosity, commerce, and civil society. Cowan provides the definitive account of the origins of coffee drinking and coffeehouse society, and in so doing he reshapes our understanding of the commercial and consumer revolutions in Britain during the long Stuart century. Britain’s virtuosi, gentlemanly patrons of the arts and sciences, were profoundly interested in things strange and exotic. Cowan explores how such virtuosi spurred initial consumer interest in coffee and invented the social template for the first coffeehouses. As the coffeehouse evolved, rising to take a central role in British commercial and civil society, the virtuosi were also transformed by their own invention.