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The 'Shampooing Surgeon': Sake Dean Mahomed Dean Mahomed's remarkable career in Britain, where he lived for nearly three-quarters of a century, gives us unique insights into how one early Indian migrant managed to find a place for himself and his family, first in Georgian Ireland and then in England. Born in 1759 in Patna, Bihar, Dean Mahomed, according to his own account, came from an elite Muslim family, being related to the Nawabs of Bengal and Bihar, his ancestors having risen in the administrative service of the Mughal emperors. Faced with the altered state of politics in mid-eighteenth century Bengal, according to family narrative, the 'only refuge' for such Muslim families was to seek service, however 'lowly', in the Company's Bengal Army. In 1769, aged 11, Mahomed fulfilled his early ambition to enter a 'military life' when he joined Godfrey Baker, an Irish Cadet, as a camp follower. Mahomed rose rapidly, first to the position of Market Master in 1781, then jemedar (ensign) and finally subedar (captain). Such rapid promotion hints at Baker's patronage, whose own fortunes had risen too. As part of Baker's battalion, Mahomed saw action (e.g., against the Marathas) and he took part in several of the battles (e.g., against Cheyt Singh) that extended the Company's domination over India, a process completed during Mahomed's own lifetime. Read more : http://www.fathom.com/course/21701766/session5.html

in 1996.Oxford India Paperbacks published Michael H.Fischer's 'The first Indian Author in English'-Dean Mahomed(1759-1851)in India,Ireland and England).Dean is brilliant..

The travels of Dean Mahomet is comparable to Enugula Veeraswamy(1780-1836)'s(a contemporary of C.P.Brown) travelogue in Telugu :'Kasi Yatra Charitra':http://books.google.com/books?id=D5lQutvzAp4C&pg=PA112&lpg=PA112&dq=kasi+yatra+veeraswamy&source=bl&ots=SjUzsZ-TUJ&sig=5ywS6CK5-uW7iHMCeB24tjVyCvM&hl=en&ei=au_ZTtaMIIjWrQeAkOTwDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CGAQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=kasi%20yatra%20veeraswamy&f=false

Deen Mahomed doesn't look as if he is descended from the Nawabs of Bengal and Bihar. Many Indian immigrants have claimed to be desendants of Rajas and Nawabs without any basis. An Indian student here used to brag before the girls that his father has seven Rolls Royces at his home in Kanpur!