The Travels of Dean Mahomet
Subtitle: An Eighteenth-Century Journey through India
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: July 30, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780520207172
Subjects: Biography: general; Classic travel writing; Other prose: 16th to 18th centuries; c 1700 to c 1800; Great Britain; Travel; Biography / Autobiography; Travelers; History; Mahomet, Sake Deen,; History: World; England; India; Ireland; Asia - India; History / General; Asia - General; Asia - India & South Asia; General; 1759-1851; 18th century; East Indians; Europe; Immigrants; Social conditions
First sentence: During the eighteenth century, the Mughal Empire, which for two centuries had provided political and cultural leadership for virtually all of India, fragmented as a variety of regionally based rulers seized power.