'In the Service of the Honourable East India Company': Politics and Identity in Dean Mahomet's Travels (1794)

The successful career of Dean Mahomet (1759-1851) as a migrant from India to Ireland (and later, England) has led to scholarly and popular interest in his work. His Travels through several parts of India in the Service of the Honourable East India Company (1794) published by subscription in Cork is reputedly the first English book by an Indian, and has been seen to counterbalance the many accounts of India by western travellers, and to assert, in autobiographical form, his identity as an Indian in 1790s Ireland. My 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. These aspects of colonial politics involving Ireland and India as subject nations of Britain are shown to shape Mahomet’s discursive strategies and the complex identity produced in his text.

History of India from the earliest period to the close of the East India Company's government,

Mode of access: Internet.

Twelve years' military adventure in three quarters of the globe; or, Memoirs of an officer who served in the armies of His Majesty and of the East India Company, between the years 1802 and 1814, in which are contained the campaigns of the Duke of Wellington in India, and his last in Spain and the south of France.

Mode of access: Internet.

A journey from Madras through the countries of Mysore, Canara, and Malabar : performed under the orders of the most noble the Marquis Wellesley, governor general of India, for the express purpose of investigating the state of agriculture, arts, and commerce ... in the dominions of the rajah of Mysore, and the countries acquired by the Honorable East India Company ... /

Mode of access: Internet.

Report from the Select Committee on the affairs of the East India company.

Includes first-fifth reports and appendices.

Medical discipline, or, Rules and regulations for preserving the health of seamen in voyages to hot climates, more especially of those in the service of the East India Company ... /

Mode of access: Internet.

Annals of the Honorable East-India Company,

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Papers presented to the House of Commons, pursuant to their orders of 16th December 1802, from the East India Company, regarding the affairs of the Carnatic ...

Title varies.

Thoughts on the changes which have taken place in the navigation laws of England and their effects on the shipping interest; together, with observations on a trade of export, and the benefits to be derived by British ships from the termination of the East India Company's charter.

Mode of access: Internet.

A gazetteer of the territories under the government of the East-India company, and of the native states on the continent of India.

Mode of access: Internet.

The Edinburgh reviewer refuted: being an exposure of gross misstatements in the leading article of No. CIV. Entitled "The East-India company--China question."

"Second edition."

Slave trade (East India) Slavery in Ceylon. : Copies or abstracts of all correspondence between the directors of the East India Company and the Company's government in India, since the lst day of June 1827, on the subject of slavery in the territories under the Company's rule ; Also communications relating to the subject of slavery in the island of Ceylon.

Mode of access: Internet.

A general catalogue of the principal fixed stars from observations made at the honorable the East India Company's observatory at Madras in the years 1830-1843 ...

Mode of access: Internet.