![]() A few other Indians passed through or lived in Cork Indian sailors, servants, wives, and mistresses, their Anglo-Indian Children, and even the occasional Indian dignitary. Nor did he fit among the colonized Catholic Irish peasantry. Through his patron, Godfery Evan Baker, he gained access to Anglo-Irish Protestant elite but he stood separate from them in origin, color, and culture. Mahomet’s letters, datingĪrriving at Cork late in 1784 twenty-five-year old Dean Mahomet created a new life for himself. His account is unique in that it provides a description from the point of view of an Indian working for the English’s colonial regime. The story of Dean Mahomet’s travels is told using numerous letters he wrote to a “friend” of his. ![]() This period was a time during which Europeans were colonizing India and Mahomet’s letters provided a unique account of Indian people and their customs during the initial expansion of the British Empire into India. ![]() The Travels of Dean Mahomet is essentially a two part book, with the first part written by Dean Mahomet himself, and provides an autobiographical journal of his travels through India in the eighteenth century. ![]()
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