The first Indian ever to write and publish a book in English, Dean Mahomed (1759-1851), lived a varied life. After serving as a subaltern in the East India Company's Bengal Army, he migrated in 1784 to colonial Ireland where he married a woman of Anglo-Irish descent. Moving to London around 1807, his activities included being a therapeutic masseur {'shampooer') for a Scottish nobleman, and opening the Hindostanee Coffee House. He later lived in Brighton as ...
Counterflows to Colonialism: Indian Travellers and Settlers in Britain 1600-1857
Indians have been visiting or settling in England since the early 1600s. Forming 'counterflows' to colonialism, Indians entered Britain, lived among Britons, and produced knowledge which compelled British responses. By the mid-nineteenth century several thousand Indian seamen, servants, scholars, soldiers, women and children, students, diplomats, royalty, merchants, tourists, and settlers were participating in varying ways within British society, depending on ...
Counterflows to Colonialism: Indian Travellers and Settlers in Britain 1600-1857
Indian have been visiting or settling in England since the early 1600s. By the mid-nineteenth century several thousand Indian seamen, servants, scholars, soldiers, women and children, students, diplomats, royalty, merchants, tourists, and settlers were participating in British society. their self-representations and activities influenced British attitudes and policies towards India generally. The context for these interactions and representations was colonialism ...
Indirect Rule in India: Residents and the Residency System, 1764-1858
