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A Tale of Colonial and Consequence in Amitav Ghosh Sea of Poppies
Subject area: Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities · Area of research: Indian Literature
Abstract
The story deals which is deals with said prior to the first opium war on the banks of holy river Ganges and in calcutta. The novel ?SEA OF POPPIES? as one of the AMITAV GHOSH?S Ibis triology vehemently attacked the scourage of imperialism and colonialism. Ghosh was born in Calcutta, and he studied in Oxford, Delhi. Amitav Ghosh?s work has been translated into more than thirty languages and he has served on the juries of the Locarno and Venice film festival. His works are The Shadow Lines, Flood of Fire, River of Smoke. He holds two Lifetime achievement awards and four honorary doctorates. The novel interweaves the stories of a number of characters, who all, in the latter half of the novel, find themselves taking passage from Calcutta to Mauritius on a schooner named the Ibis. The influence of East Indian Company Opium Factory demolished the life of number of characters portrayed in the novel.
Keywords
Scourge, Vehementary, Schooner, Juries, Poppies.
How to cite this paper
@article{1705034,
author = {R. Deepak, V. Ganesamoorthy},
title = {A Tale of Colonial and Consequence in Amitav Ghosh Sea of Poppies},
journal = {Iconic Research And Engineering Journals},
year = {2023},
volume = {7},
number = {3},
pages = {275-277},
issn = {2456-8880},
url = {https://www.irejournals.com/formatedpaper/17050341.pdf},
abstract = {The story deals which is deals with said prior to the first opium war on the banks of holy river Ganges and in calcutta. The novel ?SEA OF POPPIES? as one of the AMITAV GHOSH?S Ibis triology vehemently attacked the scourage of imperialism and colonialism. Ghosh was born in Calcutta, and he studied in Oxford, Delhi. Amitav Ghosh?s work has been translated into more than thirty languages and he has served on the juries of the Locarno and Venice film festival. His works are The Shadow Lines, Flood of Fire, River of Smoke. He holds two Lifetime achievement awards and four honorary doctorates. The novel interweaves the stories of a number of characters, who all, in the latter half of the novel, find themselves taking passage from Calcutta to Mauritius on a schooner named the Ibis. The influence of East Indian Company Opium Factory demolished the life of number of characters portrayed in the novel.},
keywords = {Scourge, Vehementary, Schooner, Juries, Poppies.},
month = {September},
}