The Travels Of Dean Mahomet

Author : Dean Mahomet
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520918517
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Travels of Dean Mahomet written by Dean Mahomet and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 0520207173
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Travels of Dean Mahomet written by Sake Deen Mahomet and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997-07-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Sake Deen 1759-1851 Nr 930 Mahomet
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781014876300
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Travels of Dean Mahomet written by Sake Deen 1759-1851 Nr 930 Mahomet and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1108495648
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book England Re-Oriented written by Humberto Garcia and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-19 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Indian Author in English written by Michael Herbert Fisher and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Nilanjana Roy
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9350297124
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Girl Who Ate Books written by Nilanjana Roy and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2016-01-10 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Ármin Vámbéry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travels in Central Asia written by Ármin Vámbéry and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Matthew Lockwood
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030023225X
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Begin the World Over Again written by Matthew Lockwood and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Sake Deen Mahomet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The travels of Dean Mahomet written by Sake Deen Mahomet and published by . This book was released on 1794 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael H. Fisher
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199326907
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inordinately Strange Life of Dyce Sombre written by Michael H. Fisher and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The descendant of German and French Catholic mercenaries, a Scots Presbyterian subaltern, and their secluded Indian wives, David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre defied all classification in the North Indian principality where he was raised. Add to these influences an adoptive mother who began as a Muslim courtesan and rose to become the Catholic ruler of a strategically-placed, cosmopolitan little kingdom, which her foster son was destined to inherit, and you have the origins of a fascinating life that reflects many of the Romantic, political, and colonial trends of a century. As heir to the throne, Sombre took great advantage of the sensuous pleasures of privilege, but he lost his kingdom to the British and went into exile in London with his very considerable fortune. Despite being Indian and Catholic, Sombre married the daughter of an English Protestant Viscount, who was a prominent defender of slavery. Sombre bought himself election as a British MP but then was expelled for corruption. His treatment of his aristocratic wife led to his arrest and confinement as a Chancery lunatic. Fleeing to France, Sombre spent years trying to reclaim his sanity and his fortune from those among the British establishment who had done him down. In this thrilling biography, Michael H. Fisher recovers Sombre's strange story and the echoes of his case for modern conceptions of race, privilege and empire.