• DOI:10.1080/13698010020019226
Corpus ID: 161906676

The Shampooing Surgeon and the Persian Prince: Two Indians in Early Nineteenth-century Britain

@article{Teltscher2000TheSS,
  title={The Shampooing Surgeon and the Persian Prince: Two Indians in Early Nineteenth-century Britain},
  author={Kate Teltscher},
  journal={Interventions},
  year={2000},
  volume={2},
  pages={409 - 423}
}

Kate Teltscher

Published 2000

History

Interventions

At an estate belonging to the Baker family in Cork, in the year 1799, there was an encounter between two Indians. Dean Mahomed had settled in Cork with his Anglo-Irish wife, and Abu Taleb Khan was a nobleman on a European tour. Both wrote travel narratives, the earliest accounts to be published by Indians in English. This paper explores the questions of cultural identity raised by these texts and by the careers of the two writers. To what extent do the authors adopt or subvert an orientalized… CONTINUE READING

View on Taylor & Francis

Save to Library

Create Alert

Cite

Launch Research Feed