Sake Dean Mahomet / Mahomed

"Born in 1759 in Patna, Bihar, then part of the Bengal Presidency, Sake Dean Mahomed came from Buxar. His father was in the employment of the East India Company. Some claim his ancestors rose in the administrative service of the Mughal Emperors. Sake Dean Mahomed also asserted that he descended from Persian and Turk immigrants drawn to India via Iran in the seventeenth century by the lure of honourable service to the Mughal Empire. He had learned much of Mughal alchemy and understood the techniques used to produce various Alkali, soaps and Shampoo. He later described the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II and the cities of Allahabad and Delhi in rich detail and also made note of the faded glories of the Mughal Empire."

Sake Dean Mahomed (Bengali: শেখ দীন মুহাম্মদ; Arabic: شيخ دين محمّد Sheikh Din Muhammad) (1759 – 24 February 1851) was a Muslim Bengali traveller, surgeon and entrepreneur who introduced the Indian curry house restaurant in Britain, and was the first Indian to have written a book in English. He also established "shampooing" baths in Great Britain, where he offered therapeutic massage, and was one of the most notable early Asian immigrants to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

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