Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Amitav Ghosh: A Bio-bibliography
An Interview
Amitav Ghosh: In Conversation with Tapan Kumar Ghosh and
Makarand R. Paranjape
Ghosh Worldview: Macro Analyses
1. Mutations of The Calcutta Chromosome? Amitav Ghosh and the Mapping of a ‘Minor’ Literature
Makarand R. Paranjape
2. Cosmopolitans of a Borderless Space
Anjali Gera Roy
3. The Water Narrative in Amitav Ghosh
Samik Bandyopadhyay
4. Amitav Ghosh qua Storier-Historian: Some Thoughts on Nation and Race
Sumit Chakravorty
Amitav Ghosh: Readings of his Fiction
5. Trapped in the Circle: A Postcolonial Critique of “Reason” in Amitav Ghosh’s The Circle of Reason
Samrat Laskar
6. Footprints on Water: The Shadow Lines
Sisir Kumar Chatterjee and Abhijit Gupta
7. The Calcutta Chromosome: A Study
Pradip Ranjan Sengupta
8. “Live My Prince; Hold On to Your Life”: Issues of Transnational Life and Identity in Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace
Sajal Kumar Bhattacharya
9. The Tides of History: Changing Currents of History and Identity in The Hungry Tide
Piyas Chakrabarti
10. Sea of Poppies and the Narrative of Exclusion
Siddhartha Biswas
11. Vernacular Nostalgia to Hybrid Pidgins: A Study of Linguistic Bridges in River of Smoke
Samrat Laskar
Amitav Ghosh: Readings of his Non-Fiction
12. “Subversive History in the Guise of a Traveller’s Tale”: Postcolonial Anthropology, Travel-writing, Nostalgia of Old World Orders and a Postmodernist Assignation of In An Antique Land
Saptarshi Mallick
13. Dancing in Cambodia: Nativist Assertion against the “Absoluteness” of Defeat
Samik Dasgupta
14. Countdown: Towards a Crisis of Civilization
Jolly Das
15. We-ing and They-ing: Othering and Violence in The lmam and the Indian
Sisir Kumar Chatterjee and Abhijit Gupta
16. Representation of Violence: Amitav Ghosh’s
Incendiary Circumstances
Sandip Ain

Select Bibliography
The Contributors
Index