Google Doodle commemorated the 260th birth anniversary of the renowned Anglo-Indian traveller and entrepreneur Sake Dean Mahomed, the first Indian author to publish a book in English.
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Sake Dean Mahomed (1759 – 1851) was an Anglo-Indian traveller, surgeon and entrepreneur, who made a name for himself by building cultural connections between India and England.
He was born in Patna. He served in the army of the British East India Company as a trainee surgeon. In 1782, he resigned from the Army and moved to Britain.
In 1794, Mahomed published his travel book, The Travels of Dean Mahomed which describes several important cities in India and a series of military conflicts with local Indian principalities. With this, he became the first Indian author to publish a book in English.
In 1810, after moving to London, Mahomed opened the Hindostanee Coffee House, Britain’s first Indian restaurant —ushering in what would become one of Great Britain’s most popular cuisines.
He went on to find success as the “The Shampooing Surgeon of Brighton”.
In Brighton, he opened a spa named Mahomed’s Baths offering luxurious herbal steam baths. His specialty was a combination of a steam bath and an Indian therapeutic massage—a treatment he named “shampooing”.
In 1822, King George IV appointed Mahomed as his personal ‘shampooing surgeon’, which greatly improved his business.
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