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| Titre : | 'In the service of the Honourable East India Company' : Politics and identity in Dean Mahomet's Travels (1794) (2009) |
| Auteurs : | Daniel S. ROBERTS, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Eighteenth-Century Ireland (vol. 24 2009) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 115-134 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : | Dean Mahomet's Travels through several parts of India in the service of the Honourable east India Company (Cork, 1794), published by subscription in Cork is reputedly the first English book by an Indian. It has been seen to cuonterbalance the many earlier account of India by western travelers, and to assert, in autobiographical form, his identity as an Indian in 1790s Ireland. The paper analyses this text in relation to moral and economic criticisms of the East India Company in the eighteenth century, and in particular to legislation of 1793 which defined the role of the Company in Ireland's trade with the east. Mahomet's sympathetic account of his travels in India directed to an audience in Ireland which was increasingly interested in India for commercial and military reasons, and on account of professional prospects or relatives there |
| Pays de publication : | Irlande |
| Lieu de publication : | Dublin |
| Mention de responsabilité : | Daniel S. Roberts |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
