The March of the Novel through History: The Testimony of my Grandfather\u27s Bookcase Text of the Arthur Ravenscroft Memorial Lecture, delivered at the University of Leeds, 5 March 1997

As a child I spent my holidays in my grandfather\u27s house in Calcutta and it was there that 1 began to read. My grandfather\u27s house was a chaotic and noisy place, populated by a large number of uncles, aunts, cousins and dependants, some of them bizarre, some merely eccentric, but almost all excitable in the extreme. Yet I learnt much more about reading in this house than I ever did at school

Amitav Ghosh on ‘The Great Derangement’

Are we deranged? Acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so, given our imaginative failure in the face of global warming. In this powerful presentation, Ghosh charts the complicity of fiction in shaping the priorities and consumer choices of the world we have created. When our descendants look back at this moment from a “substantially altered world”, he predicts, they will conclude that ours was a time when most forms of art and literature prevented people from recognizing the realities of their plight. They will think of our current moment on earth as the “time of the Great Derangement”. &nbsp

In an Antique Land

Moving between past and present, anthropologist Amitav Ghosh presents a lyrical portrait of life in Egypt, as well as broad histories of that country, Tunisia, and India’s Malabar Coast. Ghosh weaves strands of his own life in rural Egypt into the story he is researching of a twelfth-century Jewish merchant and his slave. Exploiting an extraordinary cache of medieval documents in Cairo, Ghosh is able to piece together a fascinating story illuminating the reach of medieval Egyptian trade and cross-cultural interaction; he also tells of a form of slavery very different from the one familiar to most Americans. Especially for readers seeking an understanding of the complexity and interconnected nature of the lands and cultures on the periphery of the Indian Ocean, there are few better reads than In an Antique Land.https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/muslim-journeys-books/1011/thumbnail.jp

In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler\u27s Tale

In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler\u27s Tale by Amitav Ghosh In a leisurely blend of travelogue, history and cross-cultural analysis, Indian writer Ghosh reconstructs a 12th-century master-slave relationship that confounds modern concepts of slavery. In an Antique Land is a subversive history in the guise of a traveller\u27s tale. Bursting with anecdote and exuberant detail, it offers a magical, intimate biography of the private life of a country, Egypt, from the Crusades to Operation Desert Storm.https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/jewishbookgroup/1056/thumbnail.jp

Introduction and Reading

Opening of exhibition by Amitav Ghosh and a reading from his In an Antique Land. Introduced by Anshuman Mondal (Brunel).

Narrativa e politica ambientale: una visione extra-occidentale

Traduzione di Amitav Ghosh, "Wild Fictions: Narratives of Nature and the Politics of Forests" (2005)Translation of Amitav Ghosh, "Wild Fictions: Narratives of Nature and the Politics of Forests" (2005