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

Summary

Offers an account of life in late eighteenth-century India. This book 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.

Product details

• Authors: Dean Mahomet
• Assisted by: Michael Fisher (Editor), FISHER MICHAEL (Editor), Michael Fisher (Foreword), FISHER MICHAEL (Foreword)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.07.1997
• EAN: 9780520207172
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20717-2
• No. of pages: 214
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; England, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, TRAVEL / Europe / Great Britain, TRAVEL / Europe / Ireland, TRAVEL / Asia / India & South Asia, India, Ireland, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Literary essays, Classic Travel Writing, C 1700 To C 1800