Sake Dean Mahomed
Sake Dean Mahomed ( Bengali : শেখ দীন মহাম্মদ , Śekh Dīn Mahāmmad ; * 1759 in Patna ; † February 24, 1851 ) was a Bengali traveler and author who became famous in England as an entrepreneur and therapist.
He grew up in India and joined the army of the British East India Company at the age of 11 . In 1786 he emigrated to Cork , Ireland , where he published his book The Travels of Dean Mahomet in 1794 . He was the first Indian author to publish a book in English. He went to London , where he opened the first Indian take-away restaurant , but it was unsuccessful. In 1814 he went to Brighton with his Irish wife Jane , where the couple opened the first shampooing vapor masseur bath and thus established the term " shampoo " in England (derived from the Indian champi , a therapeutic head massage). He described the treatment in the local press as a kind of Turkish bath. The business became an instant success, he became known as “Dr. Brighton ”and was awarded the title Shampooing Surgeon of The King . In 1843 he handed the business over to his son Arthur.
Works
- The travels: of Dean Mahomet, a native of Patna in Bengal, through several parts of India, while in the service of the Honorable the East India Company. Written by himself, in a series of letters to a friend. In two volumes. .. ; Cork, printed by J. Connor, 1794
literature
- Michael H. Fisher: The travels of Dean Mahomet: an eighteenth-Century journey through India (edited with an introduction and biographical essay); Berkeley, University of California Press, 1997
- Michael H. Fisher: The first Indian author in English: Dean Mahomed (1759-1851) in India, Ireland, and England ; New Delhi, Oxford Univ. Press, 2000
Web links
- Michael H. Fisher: Mahomed, Deen. In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
- Literature by and about Sake Dean Mahomed in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Works by and about Sake Dean Mahomed at Open Library
- http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft4h4nb20n/
- 1814 - Doctor Brighton - Sake Dean Mahomed
- http://www.bl.uk/popups/dmahomedlarge.html
- http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft4h4nb20n&chunk.id=0&doc.view=print
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mahomed, Sake Dean |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | মহাম্মদ, শেখ দীন (Bengali); Mahāmmad, Śekh Dīn |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bengali author and therapist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1759 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Patna |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 24, 1851 |