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	Manas: History and Politics, British India, Amitav Ghosh: review article by Vinay Lal
		It was in quest of the identity of this slave that Ghosh was led to Egypt and eventually to the complex undertaking that In an Antique Land represents.
		What is unsettling for Ghosh, to begin with, is that it is not he who is directing the interrogation, but rather they who were supposed to be the informants: the ethnographer is not in control of the investigation, the mastery over the other is not easily achieved.
		Ghosh brings to bear upon his understanding of the postulated syncreticism and cosmopolitanism of the medieval world a cluster of facts.
	www.sscnet.ucla.edu /southasia/History/British/Amitav_Ghosh.html (3921 words)

	Amitav Ghosh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Amitav Ghosh (born 1956 in Calcutta), is an Indian author, known for his work in the English language.
		Ghosh lives in New York with his wife, Deborah Baker, author of In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding (1993) and a senior editor at Little Brown and Co., and his children Leela and Nayan.
		They are Countdown (on India's nuclear policy) The Imam and the Indian (a large collection of essays on different themes such as fundamentalism, history of the novel, egyptian culture and literature) and Dancing in Cambodia, At Large in Burma.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amitav_Ghosh (211 words)

	Yale Review of Books: The Glass Palace
		Amitav Ghosh occupies a rather curious place in the landscape of contemporary English-language authors from the Indian subcontinent.
		Ghosh caps the novel loosely by revisiting Myanmar in in 1996, the region currently in turmoil.
		Ghosh lends his experience and insight to an examination of the nature of colonialism and the struggles that were inherent in winning independence.
	www.yale.edu /yrb/fall01/review01.htm (1078 words)

	Doon Online - Amitav Ghosh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Amitav Ghosh's greatest gift as a writer may well be his sense of place.
		Most remarkable is Ghosh's treatment of Kanai, a self-important, sometimes cocksure individual who ultimately becomes the locus of some of the novel's central reflections on language and on translation.
		Ghosh's critique of past and present mistakes, whether administrative or political, is at all times muted and restrained.
	www.doononline.com /pages/info_features/features_spotlights/spotlights/aghosh/place.htm (1812 words)

	Amitav Ghosh essay by Brian Kiteley, travel, intimate historiography
		Amitav Ghosh, a Hindu Indian raised in what was then largely Muslim Eastern Pakistan, born in Calcutta, educated at Oxford, sent for his anthropological field work to Muslim rural Egypt, and now a New Yorker who writes novels, is the ideal figure to usher in a new way of investigating the world.
		Amitav Ghosh said he learned to write fiction by means of the process of keeping two notebooks of observations during his fieldwork in Egypt.
		Ghosh’s writing is elegantly simple and direct, his arguments lucid and appealing, but the structure of his book does in many ways mimic the world he is describing, and the world he comes from.
	www.du.edu /~bkiteley/ghoshtalk.html (2251 words)

	books.htm
		Ghosh picks up the thread of Sisowath's visit to France, and with rare ingenuity and empathetic understanding of modern Cambodian history, places it in the context of the return of civil society in Cambodia.
		Ghosh is impressed by the phenomenon of a people who had been robbed of their education, names, profession and identity, who now pick up the small strands and clues that link them back to the source of their culture.
		Ghosh doesn't have a similar singular word, but by revealing how a brutalized people are trying to reconstruct their society, by seeking inspiration from high art, he casts light on a similar human disposition.
	www.ch.8m.com /ghosh.htm (1288 words)

	The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh: Reviews
		Ghosh tells their stories in parallel narratives suffused with an impressive wealth of historical, cetological and ethnographic detail (which isn't always successfully dramatized).
		Amitav Ghosh not only infuses great energy and spirit into an engrossing tale of caste and culture, he deftly introduces readers to a little-known world and makes it familiar.
		Amitav Ghosh is not crude about this - he never is - but the demonstration that wisdom comes from living close to nature is nonetheless familiar.
	www.metacritic.com /books/authors/ghoshamitav/hungrytide (651 words)

	Locana: Amu, Amitav Ghosh, and Amardeep
		Amitav Ghosh writes about his own experiences in Delhi in 1984; he was teaching at the Delhi University then.
		Ghosh continues a bit later that writers usually don't join crowds, but in extraordinary circumstances, "you join and in joining bear all the responsibility and obligations and guilt that joining represents." I don't know when exactly Ghosh wrote this essay, but there, Ghosh clearly values bare reality more than writing and writers' habits.
		Ghosh was in the middle of the riots, he had a personal stake in it, he could easily have been a victim, he had enough to write about that.
	locana.blogspot.com /2005/01/amu-amitav-ghosh-and-amardeep.html (1244 words)

	In an Antique Land : History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale (Vintage Departures)
		Comment: Amitav Ghosh's In An Antique Land is a hidden history of India and Egypt during the 12th century in the disguise of a traveler's tale.
		While Amitav diligently tried to fill in the details of the slave's life, whose record in medieval history was completely out of the ordinary, he befriended with enthusiastic Muslims who found him fascinating but incomprehensible.
		Amitav's landlord, Abu-Ali, was an obese, inimical, petulant man who was diligent in exploiting all moneymaking possibilities of his strategically located house.
	www.8notes.com /books/detpage.asp?asin=0679727833&field-keywords=Rameau&schMod=music&type=&sb=s (826 words)

	Search for rare dolphins an unlikely thriller - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Books - A&E
		Rather, Amitav Ghosh's gentle, subdued new novel, ''The Hungry Tide," is set in the mangrove swamps of the archipelago of the Sundarbans, off the eastern coast of India.
		Ghosh skillfully uses the true story of the siege of the village as a background for an unlikely and poignant romance that develops between the retired schoolteacher Nirmal and the object of his desire.
		Ghosh subtly describes the deep, unspoken bond that develops between the American outsider and the impoverished fisherman -- a bond that echoes the middle-class Nirmal's attraction for a poor Morichjhapi woman.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2005/07/31/search_for_rare_dolphins_an_unlikely_thriller?mode=PF (764 words)

	Asia Times
		Amitav Ghosh is of that rare breed of writers for whom the personal is the political and vice versa.
		Ghosh, soon incensed, lashes out, saying that even Western countries burn their dead: "They have special electric furnaces meant just for that." Both sides are stung.
		The imam accuses Ghosh of lying, with the logic that the West cannot be so ignorant, as they "have guns, tanks and bombs".
	www.atimes.com /atimes/South_Asia/EB08Df03.html (830 words)

	Redhotcurry.com - Books by Asian Authors. The Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Amitav Ghosh manages to embed conspiracy theories in the mind of even the most cynical reader.
		Amitav Ghosh races through time, geography and is deliberately sketchy in parts in order to maintain the suspense.
		Indeed Ghosh's lack of imagination about the future and his hastiness in creating a multitude of thin characters and contradictory storylines could so easily have been a disaster.
	www.redhotcurry.com /entertainment/books/aghosh1.htm (919 words)

	The Calcutta Chromosome - Amitav Ghosh
		Ghosh doesn't expend much energy on working out a vision of the future, and didn't put too much thought into it.
		Ghosh's quaint lack of imagination about the future is only appropriate, because the focus of the book is on the past.
		Ghosh writes reasonably well, but not particularly so (at least in this novel): it is the stories that keep the reader interested.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/ghosha/cchromo.htm (1361 words)

	A palatial tome. Rukmini Bhaya Nair's review of the Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
		Any writer who seeks to present the soul of man under colonialism, as Amitav Ghosh does in his latest novel, is therefore condemned to record the existential dilemma--wherein the subject is necessarily partitioned, a bewildered immigrant never quite in focus nor contained within the frame.
		Ghosh's technique is simply to borrow the war-journalist's tripod, lenses and so forth, and then swivel his viewfinder so that it alights on families living out heir lives in tumultuous times.
		Ghosh is a wordy writer, seldom a scintillating one; his novelistic pace is set at a sedate amble rather than an exciting sprint.
	www.lib.virginia.edu /area-studies/SouthAsia/SAserials/Biblio/ghoshgp.html (3209 words)

	Amitav Ghosh
		Amitav Ghosh, one of the best-known Indians writing in English today, will speak on “Faith and Fundamentalism” on Dec. 4 at 7p.m.
		In 1999 Ghosh was the winner of the 1999 Pushcart Prize and was a finalist in the reporting category for the National Magazine Awards, the most important magazine prizes in the U.S., for a story he wrote the previous year for The New Yorker, to which he is a regular contributor.
		Last year Ghosh joined the faculty at Queens College in the City University of New York as distinguished professor in the department of comparative literature, teaching writing classes and courses on film and literature.
	newsoffice.wlu.edu /NewsReleases/3449.html (367 words)

	The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum - Literature
		Ghosh investigates into the history and metaphysics of labour as it manifests itself in various forms in rural set-up.
		Amitav Ghosh is not a professional academic critic, yet at times he is simply impelled to write about writers that overwhelm him.
		Another highlight of Amitav’s critical methodology is the simultaneous presence of various timeframes and cultural contexts that he employs to understand the implications of a work of art in the larger civic context.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2003/20030420/spectrum/book4.htm (556 words)

	Between Two Worlds
		The book is not only full of well-drawn, interesting characters, colorful descriptions and engaging stories, but also tackles lofty themes, such as religious and cultural conflict and the value of traditional versus modern life, leaving the reader with a greater understanding of the changes that globalization brings.
		While Ghosh shows that prosperity brought about by globalization can improve peoples' lives, conversely, he makes it clear that if globalization's benefits are temporary or only available to a few, it can also lead to hopelessness and despair.
		Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956 and studied in New Delhi, Oxford and Alexandria.
	www.globalenvision.org /library/2/258 (1072 words)

	The Glass Palace - Amitav Ghosh
		Ghosh was apparently not aware that his publishers had submitted his book, and he withdrew it upon learning that he had won the regional round.
		Ghosh describes the court of Queen Supayalat and King Thebaw, focussing especially on one of the attendants, a young girl named Dolly who is the only one who can handle one of the infant princesses.
		Ghosh does fine in the Malayan jungle, with isolated troops figuring out the meaning of all this: who they should be loyal to, what they are fighting for.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/ghosha/gpalace.htm (3226 words)

	Amardeep Singh: Short review of Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide
		One of Ghoshâs most persistent themes is of the ephemerality of concepts of national and ethnic identity.
		Ghoshâs view of history makes it impossible to render such atrocities as events that might have been avoided, or for which some historical responsibility might be assigned to particular actors.
		Amitav Ghosh's new book The Hungry Tide is the Tsunami in the indian situation.
	www.lehigh.edu /~amsp/2004/08/short-review-of-amitav-ghoshs-hungry.html (1365 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Hungry Tide: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ghosh's portrayal of the not-entirely-likeable Kanai, whom we all know in some form in our own lives, along with the 'beautiful Piya' and of course the host of heroes and heroines we meet along the way made for some truly touching story-telling.
		Amitav Ghosh is a master of the genre "Fictionalized Thesis".
		Ghosh attempts to bring back the memories of S'Daniel Hamilton to stress upon the importance of true enlightenment and indomitable human spirit keeping aside unnecessary categorizations of revolutionary, bourgeois, secular, pagan and so on.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0007141777 (1150 words)

	Redhotcurry.com - Books by Asian Authors. The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The result is the Sundarbans, an immense stretch of mangrove forest, a half-drowned land where the waters of the Himalayas merge with the incoming tides of the sea.
		Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956.
		Ghosh has been a journalist and written non-fiction, 'In An Antique Land' and four novels, including the bestselling 'The Glass Palace'.
	www.redhotcurry.com /entertainment/books/aghosh2.htm (413 words)

	Amazon.ca: In An Antique Land: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ghosh also provides a very readable history of the study of history, how the documents and information related to these periods were discovered.
		The focus here is seldom on Ghosh: although a memoir, it is primarily an evocation (another one!) of Egyptian life in the relatively brief period after liberation from the British, and before modernisation transforms village life.
		Amitav Ghosh is a wonderful writer of lyric descriptions and this book is lovingly fulled with them, adding embellishments to the otherwise simple stories.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1862071209 (1067 words)

	Alibris: Amitav Ghosh
		The first was a twelfth-century slave; the second is Amitav Ghosh, who stumbled upon the slave in the margins of letters that were written by the slave's master.
		In 1980, Ghosh journeyed to a remote corner of Egypt looking for clues to the life of a 12th-century Indian slave whose story he had stumbled upon in letters written to the slave's master.
		Ghosh's work is a brilliant hybrid of history, cultural investigation, and travelogue--a vivid idea of the slave's life and an intimate portrait of the world...
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Amitav_Ghosh (586 words)

	Locana: Amitav Ghosh's essay
		Amitav Ghosh's three part essay in the Hindu about the tsunami affected Andamans:
		I vaguely disliked the tone and tenor of the whole article, though there are parts of it that I liked a lot.
		To stay is to be nowhere; Amitav Ghosh
	locana.blogspot.com /2005/01/amitav-ghoshs-essay.html (226 words)

	The Shadow Lines -By Amitav Ghosh and Geetha Vahini -By Sri Sathaya Sai Baba
		So maybe it is not surprising that Amitav Ghosh is one writer in the glut of novelists, poets and writers claiming some form of Indian descent who sell on merit, and not on hype.
		Ghosh fleshes all his characters, and each one is portrayed with all the weaknesses that make them endearing.
		Amitav Ghosh is one of India's better writers, and I look forward to getting my hands on his next book.
	www.sawf.org /newedit/edit09042000/Bookrev.asp (1001 words)

	Amazon.com: The Glass Palace : A Novel: Books: Amitav Ghosh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Yet Ghosh (The Calcutta Chromosome; Shadow Lines) is a beguiling and endlessly resourceful storyteller, and he boasts one of the most arresting openings in recent fiction: in the marketplace of Mandalay, only the 11-year-old Indian boy Rajkumar recognizes the booming sounds beyond the curve of the river as English cannon fire.
		Ghosh ranges from the condescension of the British colonialists to the repression of the current Myanmar (Burmese) regime in a style that suggests E.M. Forster as well as James Michener.
		Amitav Ghosh conveys all the excruciating details of the characters in a an unusual air of equanimity, with a detachment, serenity and moral strength in the face of such overwhelming turmoil.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375501487?v=glance (2372 words)

	The Hindu : Gosh! What a charmer!
		Amitav Ghosh is what every reader would want her favourite writer to be.
		Amitav Ghosh has earned loyal readers and the respect of his peers on the strength of his writing alone, and his fame does not ride on the back of mammoth advances or large publishing houses.
		Ghosh's wanderings have taken him beyond the confines of lines on maps, across India, the Persian Gulf, Egypt, and Algeria (not to mention Britain and America).
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/mp/2003/08/11/stories/2003081101030100.htm (1176 words)

	Kavita Chhibber - Amitav Ghosh Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		An anthropologist-turned-author, Amitav Ghosh’s books stand out not just because of the amount of research he puts in to each one (“The Glass Palace took five years of research and has exhausted me completely”), or even because he travels extensively through the places he writes about.
		Ghosh was also the winner of the 1999 Pushcart Prize, a leading literary award, for an essay that was published in the Kenyon Review.
		In 1999, Ghosh was a finalist in the reporting category for the National Magazine Awards, and recently his latest book The Glass Palace, won the $50,000 Grand Prize at the International Frankfurt eBook Awards ceremony.
	www.kavitachhibber.com /amitavghosh.html (2864 words)

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