Amitav Ghosh and his depiction of historical aspects and global interaction and experimentation with language

Abstract

The thesis, looks at the novels of Amitav Ghosh (1956), especially In An Antique Land (1992), The Glass Palace (2000), Sea of Poppies (2008) and River of Smoke (2011), to show the historical aspects of the cultures and customs of India as well as larger South Asia; the global interaction that occurred as a result of travel which was often the consequence of trade and commerce, or migration; and Ghosh’s experimentation with language in his novels.