The Travels of Dean Mahomet: An Eighteenth-Century Journey Through India

by Dean Mahomet

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520207173
• ISBN13: 9780520207172
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"