Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Map
PREFACE

A Text and a Life

Dean Mahomet in Europe (1784-185I)

The Significance of Dean Mahomet's Work

A Guide to This Volume

Acknowledgments

ONE: THE WORLD OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY INDIA

The Mughal Empire and the Regional States

The European East India Companies

The Diverse Origins of the Bengal Army

The New Model: The Sepoy

Sepoy Battalions

The Bengal Army's European Regiments

Dean Mahomet's Youth in Bihar (1759-69)

Dean Mahomet as Camp Follower (1769-81)

Dean Mahomet as Bengal Army Officer (1781-82)

Dean Mahomet in Transit (1782-84)

TWO: THE TRAVELS OF DEAN MAHOMET

THREE: DEAN MAHOMET IN IRELAND AND ENGLAND
(I784-1851)

Dean Mahomet Enters Cork

Publication of Travels

Cork Society

Immigration to London

Dean Mahomet Works for a Nabob

The Hindostanee Coffee House (1809-12)

The World of Brighton

Dean Mahomet and Jane Move to Brighton

The Battery House Baths (1815-20)

Mahomed's Baths (1821-43)

Shifting Self-Presentations

The Indian Method

Shampooing Surgeon to Royalty

Social Position in Brighton

Dean Mahomet's Legacies

Notes
Glossary
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Michael H. Fisher is Professor of History at Oberlin College. He is the author of A Clash of Cultures: Awadh, the British, and the Mughals (1987) and Indirect Rule in India: Residents and the Residency System, 1764-1858 (1991).