TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fisher, Michael H. (Editor)
TI  - The travels of dean mahomet: : an eighteenth-century journey through India
SN  - 9780520207172
U1  - 915.404  
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Berkeley	
PB  - University of California Press	
KW  - Travel of an Indian
KW  - Biography
KW  - History
N1  - https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520207172/the-travels-of-dean-mahomet
N2  - 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
ER  -