This study combines two books in one: the 1794 autobiographical travel narrative of an Indian, Dean Mahomet, recalling his years as camp-follower, servant and subaltern officer in the East India Company's army (1769 to 1784); and Michael H. Fisher's portrayal of Mahomet's sojourn as an insider/outsider in India, Ireland and England. Emigrating to Britain and living there for over half a century, Mahomet started what was possibly the first Indian restaurant in England and then enjoyed a distinguished career as a practitioner of "oriental" medicine - thereupetic massage and herbal steam bath, in London and Brighton. The text is an account of his life in the late 18th-century - the first book written in English by an Indian - framed by a mini-biography.