The Imam and the Indian: Prose PiecesHere, For The First Time Is As Complete A Collection As Can Be Made Of The Prose Which Reveals That Relatively Unknown Amitav Ghosh: The Novelist As Thinker, The Man Of Ideas As A Writer Of Luminous, Illuminating Non-Fiction. |
Contents
The Imam and the Indian | 1 |
Tibetan Dinner | 13 |
Four Corners | 18 |
An Egyptian in Baghdad | 24 |
The Ghosts of Mrs Gandhi | 46 |
The Human Comedy in Cairo | 63 |
The Oil Encounter and the Novel | 75 |
a review of The Baburnama | 90 |
Categories of Labour and the Orientation of the Fellah Economy | 134 |
The Slave of MS H 6 | 169 |
The Diaspora in Indian Culture | 243 |
Notes toward an Ethnography of International Peacekeeping | 251 |
The Fundamentalist Challenge | 268 |
the Testimony of my Grandfathers Bookcase | 287 |
Times of Joy Recalled in Wretchedness | 305 |
The Hunger of Stones | 326 |
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