The Idea of England in Eighteenth-century Indian Travel Writing

In her article The Idea of England in Eighteenth-century Indian Travel Writing Amrita Satapathy discusses how Dean Mahomed\u27s 1794 The Travels of Dean Mahomed maps out territories of the mind of the colonizer and the colonized, how the narrative redefines contours of two diverse communities and cultures, and determines forms of cultural representations. Mahomed\u27s Travels presented for the first time the idea of England from an Indian immigrant\u27s point of view and altered the prejudiced outlook of early Western travel writings about the East. Mahomed\u27s narrative opened an alternative vista for the wide-eyed Easterner of the world of the West and exposed a life less ordinary lived by inhabitants of Cork, Brighton, and London. Satapathy argues that Mahomed\u27s text is not a reductive account of England; rather, it reduces the colossal idea of England as imagined by Indian writers at the time